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AA / 000014Filed 2019

AgainstUnpaid Royalties

“The advance was not a payment. It was a loan I did not know I was underwriting.”

The advance felt like the biggest number I had ever seen. Nobody explained clearly that it was recoupable, that the video was recoupable, that the photographer, the radio plugger, the press agent and half the marketing were recoupable too.

Anonymous ArtistSouth Africa · 2019

210Stand with this

AA / 000020Edited at review

AgainstBlacklisting

The investigation found nothing. Six months later I had no clients and had a promotion.

Names removed to protect the contributor

Anonymous ManagerItaly · 2022

106Stand with this

AA / 000025Filed 2024

“I did not get paid to open that tour. I paid to open that tour.”

AgainstTouring Conditions

Anonymous ArtistGermany · 2024

177Stand with this

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