Joan Jett and Manager put out her first record, I Love Rock and Roll, and due to the situation (very quick success), she was able to license her album to a big record label and the rights came back to her when the license was over. This put her in a strong position owning her own recordings. Most recording artists' labels own the recordings. In fact, her success with the song I Love Rock and Roll was so immediate, that her manager didn't have an office (he worked out of his home) - the first album's address was his attorney's address on it!
If you have a hit song and you get some heat behind it, a label typically comes up and says they want to buy the recording from you and their deal is exclusive (world-wide exclusive term of copyright) and you never see the rights to the song again. So Joan Jett is pretty unique in her situation that she was able to retain the rights to her songs.
No comments:
Post a Comment