SpotlightEnt

🎹 Ray Charles
One of the FIRST major artists to demand:
Ownership of masters
Creative control
Set a blueprint for future artists 🎶💫🔥

THE REAL PATTERN
Across ALL MUSIC ERAS:

👉🏾Systems were complex on purpose
Contracts were designed so:
⚠️Labels owned masters
⚠️Publishers controlled royalties
👉🏾Artists were paid upfront—but lost long-term income.........