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What is the difference between the too? Im guessing the first one rapes your soul and the otherone allows for an element of originality?
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your right about the raping of your soul ds
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it all depends on the contract that is written up. I have read contracts from both the Majors and Indies that are brutal and then again, I have also read other contracts that are really fair
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i think it might be better dealing with an independant you can get closer to the man at the top instead of some suit at the other end of a board table who doesnt even know or care where you are coming from but more of how big and when his percentage is coming from.
if you have contact with the person that runs the lable you can find out their motives and usually get a better contract altho you are not going to have as many sale and advertising at your disposal.
no major lable would give you as much as 14% where as this is more common amongst indie lables.and if it goes bad you most like will never have enough money to get justice in the courts the bigger a corporation the more money they have.we have heard that saying ......................money talks and bull shit walks......................................
but there are some quite successful lables who have been known to contract artsts using nothing but a gentlemens agreement.and trust that they will not release that music to another lable.
so you are probablly right doc when you say there are some terrible and some quite fair on both side of the fence.