Prince is famous for the saying, “If you don’t own your masters, your master owns you.” From Prince, Paul McCartney, to James Ocean, we see artists time and again fight music industry giants to gain control of their master recordings and win. Last week we saw Taylor Swift speak out against the sale of her...Read More
The estates of Tupac Shakur, Tom Petty, and bands Soundgarden and Hole, and songwriter Steve Earle filed a $100 million lawsuit over the infamous 2008 backlot fire at Universal Studios Hollywood that destroyed thousands of master recordings. Invaluable music history was lost, but for many years, the extent of the fire’s damage was concealed by...Read More
