California has protected workers’ flexibility by limiting the duration of personal service contracts since the 19th century. Contracts were initially limited to two years; that threshold rose to seven years in 1931. But standard contracts in the music industry often lock artists in for the course of five, six, or even seven albums.
At the time, the Recording Industry Association of America argued that labels had to invest heavily in artists in the early days to help them acquire commercial momentum, but those acts were then able to duck out of a record deal before fulfilling their contractual obligations and allowing that label to make their money back.
Artists have fought against this amendment before. In 2001, the California legislature hosted hearings on the issue. “To hear the RIAA tell it, it was like the poor little record companies were being taken advantage of by the big, bad, greedy artists — when in fact, it was exactly the opposite,” attorney Jay Cooperat the time. “Artists can’t just get a pass on this issue,” an RIAA spokesperson hit back. “Somebody has got to come up with the money to cover damages that the companies incur.
State Assemblywoman Gonzalez, the various advocacy groups, and SAG-AFTRA hope that the conversation will be different at a time when artists’ rights conversations have crashed into the mainstream and the rise of streaming has drastically reduced the costs incurred by labels when releasing music. “The landscape of the entertainment industry has dramatically changed, yet companies still benefit from outdated laws that allow them to wield an overwhelming amount of control over artists,” Assemblywoman Gonzalez said in a statement on Friday. “No worker should ever be bound to an unreasonable contract that holds them back from making decisions about their own livelihood.”
“Labor organizer and occasional assembly member, LG, sponsored a Bill written by music unions in an attempt to obtain more money for unions” There, I fixed it for ya
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Seven years. Catching up with locking in 7 year contracts for TV show actors.
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