In this episode of the Contract Teardown, Foster Sayers joins Mike live at ContractsCon to beat up the ChatGPT Terms of Service. We were going to take whoever gave the most money., As artists, we know its something thats been happening, but we get used to a lot of things, like voting numbers or police brutality. The deal. ), Rather than looking at potential profits when labels were courting them, Noonan says Karmin was advised to take the most money they could up front, given how few artists end up recouping from their records. While Anokute points the barrel primarily at the labels dishing out deals arguing that these deals perpetuate the very inequalities for black artists that the labels have said theyre looking to change he acknowledges that labels alone cant take all the blame for unfriendly artist deals. So lets take another example from the Kanye contract. The rapper has put out nine albums over 17 years through Roc-a-Fella Records. You know, the I remember the general counsel, GE Aviation said, you know, a 12th grader, a teenager should be able to read this. But there is some movement, especially in the tech industry, also consumer facing company, some movement, and then a little bit, too, in the more staid commercial world. Right. On May 4, 2012, Kanye's team penned a letter to Island Def Jam Music Group requesting that the recording fund for this fifth album be increased. When your term ends, download it all. Ross Guberman [00:03:18] And so Im the president of legal writing prose, so Ive been doing workshops and consulting on all different aspects of lawyer writing and judicial writing for a couple of decades now. In 2012, the label released its debut compilation album Cruel Summer.In 2015, Pusha T was appointed the president of the label . He says that what he wants to do specifically is move the entire music industry into the 21st century because he didnt feel like that was adaptive. Kanye West, also now known as Ye, has been named as a suspect in a battery report taken by the Los Angeles police department in the early hours of . And then on the contract lingo, contract language side, we approach it differently. Milana Lewis, CEO of music distribution platform Stem, says record labels should start including explanatory pro-forma documents with deals, in order to promote transparency and make it easier for artists to understand what comes in their agreements. Mike Whelan [00:01:20] Pretty classy nightstand, Ross. Theyre there of the, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, if any. Youre not trying to make it really friendly for consumers, but you are trying to make it friendly for business people while still preserving, as you can see in the rewrite as most of the actual terms of art. We have been engaged in an ongoing dialogue with Hit-Boy and all the concerned parties to address his concerns and will continue to do so until a reasonable solution is achieved.). What am I looking at here? And theyre advised accordingly by an attorney at law whos telling them to sign this contract, and they say this contract is standard. As Kanye West escalates his battle with Universal Music Group, the Chicago rapper decided to share the entirety of his record contract on Twitter. Ross Guberman [00:13:17] Yeah, so, you know, you want to you want to look at these provisions in chunks or blocs or categories so you can sort of thread the needle between, you know, what what the clients might demand and what lawyers think is is in their interests. It would also give Adele the largest record deal for a British musician by surpassing . Ye (/ j e / YAY; born Kanye Omari West / k n j e / KAHN-yay; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West gained recognition as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, producing singles for several artists and developing the "chipmunk soul" sampling style. But there theres a lot you can do there, as the GE example has shown. This is subject to G.O.O.D. For his initial contract period, Yeezy received 8percent of all singles and long-play singles,14 percent of the royalty base with respect to master recordings during initial contract period,14 percent of sales of an album in excess of 500,000 units and15 percent of sales of an album in excess of 1 million units. The artist owns the copyright in the recordings and songs and leases them to the record label/publisher for a limited term. Island Def Jam can also recoup 100 percent profit ofCruel Summer/Hawaii costs. Uploaded by not charge for contracts we cannot understand or track. Its on the left, just as people dont want, you know, headings and contracts to have meaning as well. Mike Whelan [00:22:29] he did not listen. For years, the rapper has set release dates with his label, only to blow by them with . Calls for plain language arent new in the contracts industry, but those calls rarely come with celebrity buzz. However, only 50 percent of video costscan berecouped from audio-only record royalties. Right. Were going to deduct a million dollars. Looking back, I've thought many times about what makes Kanye Kanye. At no point was Kanye allowed to object to a track being on the record if it achievedTop 100 chart success on any national trade publication at any time prior to when the Greatest Hits album was released. Kenny Beats tweeted that something needs to change in the structure of the music industry to protect artists and specifically Black artists. And in a lengthy post on Instagram, Hit-Boy, whos produced platinum songs including Sicko Mode and N-s in Paris, said that multiple attorneys who have seen the deal he signed as a 19-year-old with Universal Music Publishing Group in the mid-2000s called it the worst publishing contract theyd ever seen. Ross Guberman [00:07:15] So youre looking at a movement that started when those Capitol Hill hearings, but the tech companies were in the news. Artists re-signing these stops. Will we be seeing a President Kanye? The partnership was a nightmare for both Negrito and the label, he says. I PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS THAT IT DONT LOOK LIKE THIS TOMORROW," Ye wrote in a tweet with the five accompanying images. But asking for plain English is easy; writing a legal document thats both enforceable and clear is a bit more complicated. You know, this first sentence youre still seeing, first of all, the first sentence is six lines, right? Right. A Lawyers role is to IMPROVE deals. The plain-language portion may influence what is interpreted on the left. Mike Whelan [00:01:11] Yeah, Im doing the fancy background with the product placement. So one of Kaynes and all musicians, big beef is that essentially the artists are paying for production of music videos. June 21, 2019, 2:27 PM PDT. (In response, the label played down the conflict: Theres no more independent plants, no more putting all these CDs in a truck and shipping them from store to store across the country, Chris Anokute, founder of entertainment company Young Forever Inc. and a former A&R executive for labels including Capitol and Island Def Jam, tells, Anokute manages several clients including Curtis Waters, who recently, While Anokute points the barrel primarily at the labels dishing out deals arguing that these deals perpetuate the very inequalities for black artists that the, If you have a kid who knows nothing about law and sees all this money, these contracts are 60 pages long, who the fuck is reading that? Anokute says. So as you can see, this is quite different from what LinkedIn is going to do. Theyre taking risks and investing in acts, Kinney says. The language looks like something you might find, you know, 50, 100 years ago. Rewrite deals to be understandable from FIRST READ. This past Wednesday, September 16, Kanye West, in an attempt to " change the music industry for good ," shared his recording contracts with Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam Recordings, and Universal. Nirvana Vinyl Records. They would pay Kanye back after the successful completion of the film, provided it was up to standards. Ross Guberman [00:22:31] but definitely something to that. Ive got blues and Ive got reds. In the process of that latter Twitter. The deals not bad what is that based on? Negrito asks. This is the same deal your favorite artist signed, this is their label. What do you expect a young, naive artist to do? Lets get back to the show. Addeddate 2020-09-21 23:04:27 Identifier KanyeWestContracts Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0jt91382 Ocr After agreeing to the amount spent on the film, they took $1 million from Kanyes sixth album backend and then $500,000 from his seventh album's recording fund. Right. . And according to the general counsel, its worked wonders. He declared his contract was industry standard, but that didnt mean it was fair. So, you know, my provision, these are coded blue brief catch picking up on a lot of those. So, you know, theres a lot in contract language thats really just generic legaleese the same kinds of things you see in other documents. Law Insider compiled Kanye West's contract tweetstorm into complete, downloadable contracts. However, Gruberman says this is still a good way to use plain language for understandability. Ideally, he says, artists should have legal representation working in their best interest to point out red-flag clauses: While an artist should be wary of what theyre signing rather than looking solely at the immediate paycheck, young and starry-eyed artists whove never seen so much money may not understand that yet. Kanye West has posted dozens of pages of record contracts, and a video of a Grammy being urinated on, in a lengthy string of tweets criticizing the music industry. They will help you draft better contracts faster. this summer, doesnt point the finger at any one entity or group for the nature of these deals. So lets talk a little bit. Many young artists dont realize how recoupment works, in which a label fronts the money for artists advances and expenses like recording and marketing, to be paid back to the label through royalties later. Kanye West is seen at a Donda listening event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Somethings got a hold your drink place. Its not always clear whats what. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Soundtrack: The Great Gatsby. Its all made from videos. Welcome to Law Insiders Contract Teardown Show, where we bring smart friends like Ross Guberman over here to break down some contracts. Youre going to sign the amendment. We were broke college kids right after the recession. In order to maintain the original intent, some legal jargon and industry terms must remain intact. musical compositions embodied on albums released by a major record label per year (or longer if West needed more time) (each a "Contract Year") for . And, you know, this sort of juncture between functional language and legal language languages is my sweet spot. I need every lawyer in the world to look at these," he wrote. If youre part of a team, just email us if youre in house or in a law firm. Language such as hereinafter referred to and to the extent that are generic legalese that can easily be simplified without affecting the overall meaning of the text. The breakdown for this amount was:$1.5 million was to be distributed to record the album. Music, is no. Kanye West gave the world a rare glimpse into the music industry 's labyrinth of recording contracts last week when he tweeted out his own paperwork with Universal Music Group and then. Mike Whelan [00:24:07] That is perfect. Youve been dealing with this for a while. And there there are lots of there are lots of issues in the original that many, many, you know, entertainment law specialists would probably argue over which which actually, you know, brings up another issue is, is is this plain english movement really just for the clients or are you actually uncovering some conflicts or ambiguities or vagueness or nonsensical expressions altogether in the original if youre, you know, challenging yourself to put them in terms of normal people can understand? XXL has taken a deep dive into Kanye's record contracts. Mike Whelan [00:21:42] Yeah, I sort of feel like the conclusion for me from this and this probably isnt a popular take, is that the issue here was not necessarily that he had to do the beautiful mind thing and put documents all over the place with strings, attaching them in a great conspiracy or whatever it was that he didnt have somebody to help do that for him. Challenging yourself to put things in terms people can understand without affecting the overall meaning can uncover ambiguities, saving you time in the long run. Ross Guberman [00:16:40] Yeah, you really hit the nail on the head. Guberman has dissected the Profit Sharing Agreement section of Kanyes contract and found several areas in which the language could be more transparent. A lot of people say they sign a million-dollar deal, but you dont get a check for $1 million, Noonan adds. West is also no longer with record label Def Jam a Universal Music Group subsidiaryas he has fulfilled his contract, Forbes reported Thursday, and his own label, G.O.O.D. Are not just for royalties. Portals. All those of those terms that you can also edit out of other legal documents, theres a lot to do there that really will clean these up without ever even considering going into the substantive terms. Ye's business manager's inability to . Some are asking what took so long. Island Def JamMusic Group also agreed to give Kanye the rights, title and interest in all of the masters for his sixth and seventh album, but only after the reversion datethe last day of the semi-annual accounting periodwhich is 20 years after the initial release of the seventh album. We were lucky because we were careful. on September 21, 2020. W aiting for a Kanye West album can be an excruciating, interminable experience. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. So the tool, the tool were looking at brief catch, you know, there you go. Most comprehensive library of legal defined terms on your mobile device. You need to have some consistency, trying to keep that in there while still, again, capturing the the legal the truly contract law based elements of the original, the proviso, the, you know, the preemption, the classic for the avoidance of doubt and so forth, trying to trying to preserve all that, but not going so far as to worry about sentence length just for the sake of sentence length. A month ago, Kanye West had an emotional breakdown on Twitter. You want to make sure everything is understandable, but you dont want to take related phrases within a provision and just willy nilly break them up into multiple sentences the way you might. So heres an amendment. The label additionally had the right to release one Greatest Hits album. I want you to do me a quick favor. And so Kanye is at this point where hes like, dude, I got to have some other ways to make money. Mike Whelan [00:17:34] Yeah, I like the phrase sufficient moneys. Kanye West vs. Side note: usually artists get between 12-15% royalty rate but Kanye was already being a huge hit so he could negotiate a higher fee. Kanye's call for transparency in the music business has made other artists and industry insiders speak up. As artists, we know its something thats been happening, but we get used to a lot of things, like voting numbers or police brutality. "Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. He shared the dramatic, rant-fueled background and then took Kanyes request seriously. Every audio file, every asset, every deal stored WITH the money. Record Companies have to buy into you, not loan you. 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Ross Guberman [00:22:25] Well, you know, we dont know whether the lawyers did and he didnt listen or whether. He is no longer signed to Def Jam, his longtime record company; his contract expired with his 2021 album, "Donda." And Ye . If you are interested in being a guest on Contract Teardown, please email us at community@lawinsider.com. Pearl Jam Vinyl Records. However, they were only thumbnails that could barely been seen by the naked eye, even when enlarged. Law Insider, in partnership with Laura Frederick and How to Contract, is hosting ContractsCon 2023, a live training and networking event focused on practical contract drafting and negotiating skills for in-house counsel and contracts professionals. ET . Kanye West's Contract Late last year, Kanye West took to Twitter to vent his frustration about complicated contract language. Push the button. Youll get access to more content like this. Having the contract laid out in plain language can lead to fewer problems down the road. Miguel Candela / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images file They are for your entire business. If youre with a major you have invested your songs as shares in their power to get equity and deals. Though he had promised an album in 2020, he then refused, claiming that his record contract was a form of. So what I what I what I did here is just pull pull one of the key provisions on the substantive side from this profit sharing agreement so we could try to figure out again whats possible for for the Kanye West of the world. NO other business in the world takes a look at the business, buys shares, starts to profit when it profits. Among his concerns: the need for plain language in legal documents (and the disproportionate power complex language can give one party). Moments later, Kanye shared screenshots of five files. Its an exclusion, a liability. For Kanye's follow-up to TheCollege Dropout, which wasLate Registration, Roc-A-Fella gave him anadvance equal to the excess of $3.5 million over recording costs. How can you rewrite a contract to be understandable without losing the original intent? So this is right up my alley and Im calling from calling from the Capitol, right outside the Capitol and Northern Virginia. And the whole thing does feel very, very dated and and remote. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. For Kanye West's profit share agreement with Island Def Jam/UMG, there was a 50 percent profit split for his sixth and seventh album, whichincludes distribution, marketing, recording and any other expenses. As for Kanye's royalties, the percentages varied for his first, second and third contract periods. this summer, doesnt point the finger at any one entity or group for the nature of these deals. Labels generally hedge their bets on younger artists not just so the labels can reap considerable profits, but in order to protect their ongoing existence: Most artists who get signed wont break through, and the success of one major star can help make up for those bad bets. Ross Guberman [00:09:03] Yeah, exactly. Youve got defined terms of art in there. And it was actually really hard to get through because they were just images. Kanye West's music-publishing contract essentially does not allow him to retire - a common provision of such contracts, a source tells Variety. Were lucky we were told the truth in so many ways.. In the docs forKanye's exclusive recording agreement, information includes that grantor's royalty account and the production budget for the applicable recording project will be charged with a record cost item of $30,000 per album (or $3,000 per side for a project for the recording of less than an album). Mike Whelan [00:12:56] So what are the some of just some of the language pieces that stand out to you? 2. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Its sort of a it, Ross Guberman [00:17:40] hasnt been taken. Royalties. In September 2020, "Kanye West Record Deal" started trending. I think this is also, frankly, probably closer to what somebody like Kanye West could demand. Right. As lawyers and contract drafters trying to implement plain language, we have to find a way to do this while staying true to the contract. You want to get in and get as much as you can is what we were told. I have a lot of free articles and a lot of these before and after is also on Twitter. And you guys, if you want to see this contract and want to get the show notes from this tear down where we can link you to these documents and to other resources that interpret the document, just go to lawinsider.com/resources. He got a $12 million pool of money to make "Yeezus" in 2013. Thats a sort of grey area, and I think its an important conversation to be had., Editors picks The dates of the files range from 2005 to 2014. Where you calling from? (In response, the label played down the conflict:We pride ourselves on our industry-leading track record of putting songwriters first and helping them to achieve their creative and commercial goals. Report: Kanyes Anti-Semitic Rhetoric Led to Assaults, Vandalism, If you have a kid who knows nothing about law and sees all this money, these contracts are 60 pages long, who the fuck is reading that? longtime A&R exec Chris Anokute, Anokute manages several clients including Curtis Waters, who recently went viral through his TikTok hit Stunnin. While Waters was courted by many major labels,at Anokutes counsel, he signed a shorter-term 60-40 profit-split deal with BMG. Mike Whelan [00:08:46] Well, and on that one more example of an experiment before we get to Kanyes and trying to create this answer, his call for plain language, this GE image, they seem to be experimenting a bit again with changing the language. Mike Whelan [00:07:53] Well, and heres another one from LinkedIn, this sort of two column set up in the license image. . Mike Whelan [00:22:56] So, Ross, I appreciate your thoughts on this. This is Kanyes contracts. He tweeted them so I made PDFs. Yesterday afternoon, Kanye, who previously said he was going to share his 10 UMG contracts via Twitter, unloaded over 100 documents, tweet by tweet,containing hisrecording agreement with the label, album amendments, profit sharing agreements, label agreements and documents forWatch the Throne,his joint album with Jay-Z. But as the music industry comes out of its 20-year tailspin, with streaming fueling new growth, artists arent satisfied with that arrangement, and many are demanding newfound power. Its its unfortunately the the words and phrases that are operative to. Ross describes a counselor that can thread this very tough plain language needle. #kanyewest #dramaalert #grammyWanna continu. Are they making too much? Twenty-two percent of royalties were to be given on both the sixth and seventh albums. Maybe even my own lawyer is not really looking at the language from my point of view. Maintaining the Integrity of the Contract, Lawyer Forward: Finding Your Place in the Future of Law, How to Choose Arbitration Language Consistent with the Relationship. I will not share the image of Kanye West urinating on his Grammy, though. And so were going to go through parts of this. Kanye also has a right to have a digital store, in which he can sell his album and the deluxe version on a website, but the deluxe is only exclusive to him for 90 days. Found online, don't shoot the messenger. Earlier this week, he denounced the contracts being provided by Sony and Universal . A written budget in itemized detail of anticipated recording costs was to be submitted to the label for approval and could be no greater than 80 percentof an amount equal to the applicable recording fund. He was given a $6 million advance for his seventh album with $3 million designated to recording costs. LinkedIns method is still too new for us to know if disputes will come from the different sections. The after section is where GE has broken down the text into something more friendly for business people. Kanye West has been active on Twitter once again. So you dont want to run around changing materiality. Mike Whelan [00:03:50] I realized after I got dressed to have our conversation that Im wearing the shirt that apparently everyone in D.C. wears. GOOD Music (stylized as G.O.O.D. Thats not the game here, Noonan recalls as the mindset when negotiating contracts. An advance constitutesany moneypaid, costs incurred or costs to create videos. One common grievance: Many aspects of record deals do not reflect how the business has dramatically changed over the past decade. Leveraging Scooter Braun's reputation and influence within the music and entertainment industries, Scooter Braun and the Scooter Braun Projects team work around the clock to put its clients in a position to make their dreams come true. Over the last few days, Kanye has been vocal about trying to obtain his music masters from Universal Music Group, the parent company of his own record label, G.O.O.D. So notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Shall problem, you know, using Shal for both obligations and future events, words that seem familiar, like promptly that have a legal layer causes. Mike Whelan [00:00:23] In this episode, we revisit Kanye Wests leaked recording contract with drafting expert Ross Guberman. So the rest, you know, if its not a one of those categories, its either an industry term of art or just normal English talking about finance or recording. Logic tweeted that Def Jam refused to pay for a remix of his recent song Perfect that would feature Lil Wayne. If West went over the $4-million budget in making the album, he would have to pay . Kanye West leaked his recording contracts on Twitter. I AM ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AND UNIVERSAL WONT TELL ME WHAT MY MASTERS COST BECAUSE THEY KNOW I CAN AFFORD THEM BLACK MASTERS MATTER.". Normally, its sort of reversed. Well see you guys next time. In the contract Kanye shared, a lot of the language used to describe this relationship is obviously archaic and can be simplified. So youre seeing some attempt by LinkedIn. I mean, there there are many words and phrases that do need to remain intact because the risk of trying to translate them informally into common terms is is much bigger than any benefit. He suggests focusing not on the necessary legal and industry terms but on clearly nonsensical or unnecessarily archaic sections. Kanye West Tweets About His '10' Recording Contracts: 'I Need Every Lawyer in the World to Look at These' In his latest string of tweets about his recording deals Wednesday (Sept. 16),. And the record business that it means in normal English. Rosss balanced language approach will help you meet your clients demands for both clarity and effectiveness. They are long. How that how how that would play out. Within the deal, Kanye was obligated to release six albums, inaddition tohis initial effort, TheCollege Dropout(2004), within a 12-month span. Artists like Kanye feel that they are being cheated. Theres this site, my my other company, legal writing pro. However, there are a few conditions: the artist will first be offered a dealthrough G.O.O.D. Kanye West Posts Over 100 Pages of His Record Label Contracts, Tweet by Tweet Tyler Sharp Published: September 16, 2020 David Crotty / Patrick McMullan, Getty Images Kanye West made. G.O.O.D. But they were reluctant to strike a deal with the young producer/rapper. And, to an extent, they're not wrong. When youre awake to this, you cant be the perpetrator anymore.. Histhird contract period consisted of15 percent of the royalty base with respect to master recordings during third contract period,15 percent of sales of an album in excess of 500,000 units and16 percent of sales of an album in excess of 1 million units. Kanye Wests Record Deal Is Standard. The contracts show Kanye received a $2.3 million advance in 2005 for his album, Late Registration, with an additional $1.2 million as a recording budget.For . The split can be 80/20 in the artists favor. Last modified on Thu 13 Jan 2022 14.04 EST. Im going to give people a little bit of background on the Twitter rant about contracts. 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