#KanyeWest #GrammyAwards #KanyeTwitter Kanye West took to Twitter on Sunday to share his vision about what record deals should look like going forward amid his own ongoing legal battle to obtain rights to his music. In a series of tweets titled ‘NEW RECORDING AND PUBLISHING DEAL GUIDELINES,’ the rapper listed seven guidelines that labels should follow. The first guideline, according to West, is that the ‘artist owns the copyright in the recordings and songs and leases them to the record label / publisher for a limited term’. West then shared that the ‘record label / publisher is a service provider that receives a share of the income for a limited term. The split can be 80/20 in the artists favor’. He wrote that artists ‘must be dependent on no one but themselves to manage their catalog’. West encouraged the need for lawyers to ‘IMPROVE deals’ by creating ‘Plain English’ contracts. He said that the music industry should do away with ‘blanket licenses’. Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ugaman01
