In a typical record label contract, the record label pays all of the initial costs to make the record, including the studio costs, the hiring of additional musicians, engineers, and producers.

labels rush into an old-fashioned bidding war. While social media certainly disrupted the music business, it didn’t uproot the traditional record label model. There have been numerous other game ...

"You do hear arguments from artists that they are not earning a lot of money from streaming, but that is probably because they are stuck on old contracts with their record labels. But if you are ...

sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming of 70 to 120-year-old 78 rpm records under its Great 78 Project. The music labels alleged that the project was indulging in ...

In a lengthy statement posted to both her Twitter and Instagram accounts, Swift accused Braun, who owns her former label Big Machine Records, and Scott Borchetta, who founded it, of impeding her ...