Kanye West has said publicly for years that he deserves to own the rights to his music — the master recordings of his songs, and his publishing — even though he knowingly signed contracts with Univ…
and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, with top attorneys present, that adhere to music industry standards whereby the company is the owner. He even sued both companies over the matter last year; while the Universal suit is ongoing, sources say he settled with Sony/ATV last fall.
In fact, the amendment he signed in 2014 was a pressing and distribution arrangement — a “P&D deal” whereby a company, in this case Universal, manufactures and distributes recordings for which the masters are owned by another party, which in this case is presumably West, who sources tellprobably gained the rights to at least some of his master recordings in one of his renegotiations.
These amendments further promise that the eighth and ninth albums will shift the artist to P&D terms in which 100% of the profits are his. And, while it’s clear that West wants his masters now, this is where the window where he can take control of the masters from his sixth and seventh albums gets shortened to 20 years, if recouped . A later amendment shortens that window for subsequent albums to seven years.
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