A piece of legislation known as the Free Artists from Industry Restrictions (FAIR) Act has long divided the music industry in California, with powerful forces on both sides taking positions. If ena…
A piece of legislation known as the Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act has long divided the music industry in California, with powerful forces on both sides taking positions. If enacted, FAIR would undo a 35-year-old amendment to the state’s historic “seven-year statute” and effectively remove the power of record labels to sue artists for damages if they exit their contracts after seven years without having turned in the number of albums specified in their contracts.
For the last two years, a small group of wealthy music managers and lawyers have been trying to advance a bill in Sacramento that would change the rules for recording agreements to benefit elite stars and their representatives while driving down advance payments and royalties for everyone else and making it harder for diverse new voices to get signed.
The first version of this proposal failed to receive a hearing or a vote and it died at the end of 2021. The second version was scheduled for a hearing before the Assembly Arts and Entertainment Committee in April but at the last minute the sponsor, Ash Kalra, pulled the bill off the agenda because he did not have the votes to move it forward.
Indeed, back in the early 2000s the Legislature rejected a virtually identical bill after extensive public hearings and testimony recognizing the harm it would do to working musicians and new voices trying to get signed, including when the principal megastar advocate for the bill already
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