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AA / 000002Filed 2019

AgainstBad Contracts

“They handed me the pen in a car park and told me the lawyer part was a formality.”

I was nineteen and I had one song getting attention in writer rooms. The deal was presented to me as standard. Everyone signs this, they said. If you take it to a lawyer it will look like you don't trust us, and this town is small.

Blue Ridge · SongwriterUnited States · 2019

318Stand with this

AA / 000013Filed 2020

AgainstPublishing Traps

Everyone signed it in the room. Only one person filed anything, and he filed something else.

Anonymous SongwriterIreland · 2020

11Stand with this

AA / 000027Filed 2017

“The works were registered under a misspelling, and a misspelling cannot be paid.”

AgainstUnpaid Royalties

Anonymous SongwriterPortugal · 2017

244Stand with this

Publishing TrapsAA-000028

The clearance took ninety percent. I wrote the other side of that record alone.

Anonymous Artist233 stand with this

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