Comments on: CA performers win audit power http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1928 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:25:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1928/comment-page-1#comment-3441 Reader's Write Sun, 18 Jul 2004 03:07:20 +0000 #comment-3441 It may not make much difference in the end. The industry was violating the contracts they had themselves written. Next step is to change them. Contracts could be rewritten to force new artists to give up almost any legal right - of course this would not affect current or past contracts. Unfortunately artists are on the very bottom of the industry food chain - getting paid last, when and if any money is left over. "Creative accounting" as they call it, has for a long time insured that the "expenses" will in most case exceed what would have gone to the artist. It's almost as if the artists should be grateful to the record companies for not making them pay out of pocket. It may not make much difference in the end. The industry was violating the contracts they had themselves written. Next step is to change them. Contracts could be rewritten to force new artists to give up almost any legal right – of course this would not affect current or past contracts.

Unfortunately artists are on the very bottom of the industry food chain – getting paid last, when and if any money is left over. “Creative accounting” as they call it, has for a long time insured that the “expenses” will in most case exceed what would have gone to the artist. It’s almost as if the artists should be grateful to the record companies for not making them pay out of pocket.

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