Music Business Liabilities

My business consists of every aspect of the show production world. Today I'll be discussing a few liabilities from within my field. I've highlighted a few significant cases:

1. Radiohead's touring company is being investigated the Canadian Ministry of Labor; after a stage collapse at one of their tour venues. In the incident, the band's drum technician Scott Johnson was crushed and died. At this point it is difficult to say who will have to be held uncountable for the tragedy. But I'm sure there is a large settlement in store for Mr. Johnson's Family.
   http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/questions-linger-after-radiohead-stage-collapse-20120623
2. Justin Bieber is being sued for $9m, by an Oregon woman, who claims that she suffered from loss of hearing after attending one of his shows. This sounds silly, since she is mother of a Justin fan, so her daughter probably hates her for even going through with this lawsuit. Just from what I learned in my entertainment law course, I'm pretty sure he wont have to pay up since the tickets she bought act as waivers.
   http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/12/justin-bieber-lawsuit-hearing-noise-concert-oregon/
   
   
3. Both Cristina Aguilera and her label Sony, are being sued for not clearing a sample with its rightful owners. It's for a sample in her song, “Ain't No Other Man.” Apparently Sony cleared it with a company that didn't completely own the work. So TurfAmerica is pursuing a suit against them.
   http://music-mix.ew.com/2011/03/07/christina-aguilera-sued-aint-no-other-man-sample-clearance/

Ankh Marketing

In the ever changing art of Artist Management, there are many different types of managers who come from a long line of varying different art forms and ways of life, all with a common goal, to make their artists happy while still being profitable. While there are many great artist management companies out there I had to find one to research, Ankh Marketing. While their name says they are a marketing firm, their work shows that they have many artists they help manage by properly marketing, the artists, to the right people.

Ankh marketing helps such companies, by producing advertisement campaigns, as Play Station, 2K Sports, The Gumball Rally, Vitamin Water, and The City of Oakland, among many others, by helping them properly market they, in a sense help to manage these companies to their many high levels of success.

While on the other hand they help several artists by promoting events such as, the 2007 Rock the Bells Hip Hop Festival. This festival included the reunion of Rage Against the Machine, Snoop Dogg, The Roots, Public Enemy, Erykah Badu, Wu-Tang Clan, Mos Def and Talib Kweli. By allowing these artists to come through and play at such a large event they are helping their careers, however famous and large the artists may be. This may not be “management” in the eyes of a lot of people, but to me it seems like bringing these people together, especially a reunion of a great band, Rage Against the Machine, would take a large amount of great artist management to make it all work.

This company tells me that there is a way to be a great artist “manager” while still attributing yourself to many other things that can still be lucrative. Ankh marketing shows us all that management can be done in many different ways, not excluding marketing through the proper channels to help “manage” artists to the next level of their careers. I would suggest visiting their website to learn more information about this company to anyone interested.

diddy's managment

Sean Combs formerly known as Puff Daddy, who brought the world artist such as Notorious B.I.G., The Lox, Mary J. Blige, 112, Total, Lil Kim, and a host of other talented artist that contributed to his success P Diddy has overtaken Jay-Z as the richest hip-hop artist, according to Forbes, with a net worth of $550 million.

The Bad Boy Records founder has many business ventures, including Ciroc vodka, which saw a 122 per cent sales spike last year, as well as his Sean John and Enyce clothing lines, his marketing firm Blue and a handful of business start-ups, which have helped him accumulate a huge personal fortune.
Last year's richest hip-hop artist Jay-Z was left in second place with a net worth of $460 million thanks to his recent Watch The Throne tour, which will come to the UK at O2 Arena in London on May 20, as well his multi-million dollar deal with Live Nation, his 40/40 Club chain and cosmetics company Carol’s Daughter. 

The other artists featured in the list are Dr Dre ($270 million), Birdman ($125 million) and 50 Cent ($110 million).

Dr Dre is rumored to be planning a tour with the hologram version of Tupac, which was unveiled for the first time at the Coachella Festival at the weekend. 
Speaking to MTV, Sean P-diddy Combs claimed not to be fussed by the list, commenting: "I think people think that I have that money actually sitting at home in the basement. To everyone calling me for a loan today, I do not have that money today." The list was compiled using the same methodology which Forbes uses to calculate The World’s Billionaire’s list, looking at the past earnings, valuing current holdings and gauging the opinions of financial experts and industry insiders. Reference http://www.nme.com/news/p-diddy/55408