So if suge was entitled to money why didn't he sue?
Maybe he wanted to save the suit for a rainy day?
dre provides the music for death row artist and he was a partner, why did he lose his master and half the profits? suge should get his ass beat for this
Probably like I said before. He was in a contract and the only way to get out was to give something up. It's not hard to imagine Suge telling Dre, I can get you out your Ruthless deal but you have to et me manage you for life.
Fiddle with your gun during a hit with no backup shooters against Sugar Bear,
gangbanger brehs.
I was thinking about this the other day. Not to promote violence but homie really did f up. If he was going to kill Suge he should have walked up and popped him or waited till he got out the ride and did it. Otherwise he never should have run up on him.
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The California State Senate will hold a hearing Sept. 5 in Sacramento, Calif., to begin investigation of the so-called "Seven-Year Statute," Billboard Bulletin reports. Don Henley and Courtney Love ar
The California State Senate will hold a hearing Sept. 5 in Sacramento, Calif., to begin investigation of the so-called "Seven-Year Statute," Billboard Bulletin reports. Don Henley and Courtney Love are expected to testify at the hearing, which will be held by the newly formed Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry. The committee is chaired by state Sen. Kevin Murray (D-Los Angeles), a former music agent at the William Morris Agency.
California's Seven-Year Statute limits the amount of time an individual can be held to a contract for personal services. It was amended in 1987 to provide a limited exception for recording contracts. A number of artists, including Henley, Love, Luther Vandross, and Metallica, have sued their labels under the statute. However, the suits have always been settled before a ruling could be delivered on the statute's viability.
"There is clearly some ambiguity in the law, and we will investigate how to clarify the law for both artists and their employers," Murray says in a statement. Virtually every other industry in California -- with the exception of the record industry -- is held to personal-service contracts that cannot legally run longer than seven years. I am aware that there are two sides to this issue; that is precisely the reason this hearing is necessary."
Last year, artist groups led by Henley's Recording Artists Coalition made their voices heard in Washington when they opposed an amendment the Recording Industry Association of America had helped enact to the work-for-hire provisions under federal copyright law that would have prevented artists from reclaiming their master recordings. Largely as a result of the artist activism, the law was repealed.
It remains unclear if a repeal of the California labor law amendment will be proposed. "I think there are all sorts of ways to draft something that is more effective for both parties," Murray says. "I have to listen to people and be able to ask both sides similar questions in the same room."
Murray adds that the committee also plans to investigate online and offline piracy, violence, runaway production, pension, and health care, among other issues facing the artist community.
California Senate To Study 'Seven-Year Statute' | Billboard
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Metallica Sues Label, Challenging '7-Year' Contract Statute
September 28, 1994| CHUCK PHILIPS | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
In a move that could upend performers' contracts throughout the recording industry, Metallica, one of the nation's biggest-selling hard-rock groups, sued Time Warner's Elektra Entertainment on Tuesday to end its decade-long association with the Elektra label.
The Grammy-winning group, which has sold an estimated 40 million albums worldwide for Elektra since 1984, is basing its claim on a controversial California law designed to free actors from long-term studio deals. The law is untested in the music business.
Under the so-called seven-year statute, entertainers cannot be tied to any company for more than seven years. Some record companies say the statute does not apply to recording acts but that they have been reluctant to test it for fear of an exodus of veteran artists. If the lawsuit succeeds, recording artists could attain, every seven years, a free-agency status similar to that of professional athletes.
Previous threatened showdowns over the statute--including recent cases filed by singers Don Henley and Luther Vandross against Geffen Records and Epic Records, respectively--were avoided when artists settled out of court.
"A win for Metallica could have a dramatic impact on the music business," said entertainment lawyer Don Engel, who represented Henley and Vandross in their seven-year-statute battles. "Record companies have been trying to brush this issue under the rug for decades. If Metallica wins, you can bet other performers who are unhappy with their contracts will follow their lead."
Metallica's dispute follows a Warner Music corporate shake-up that was orchestrated by Warner Music Group Chairman Robert Morgado in August. The revamp led to the resignation of Robert Krasnow as chairman of Elektra Entertainment and the announcement by Mo Ostin, longtime chairman of Warner Bros. Records, that he would resign Jan. 1.
Warner Music Group, the world's largest recording company, is a unit of Time Warner.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said the band's lawsuit was prompted by what he called "greedy and arrogant" behavior by Morgado, who Ulrich says reneged on a promise by Krasnow to restructure the band's deal.
"Our faith in this company has been flushed down the drain," Ulrich said. "Elektra used to have a reputation as a label that treated artists with respect. Now it's just another place where arrogant business people break promises."
A spokeswoman for Warner Music Group said the company had not seen the suit, which was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, and declined to comment. Calls to Elektra were not returned, and Morgado was not available for comment.
Ulrich said Krasnow promised last spring to restructure the band's 10-year-old contract into a joint venture in which the band and the label would in effect become partners. In seeking the deal, the band waived personal advances in favor of a profit-sharing arrangement.
Metallica Sues Label, Challenging '7-Year' Contract Statute
that is the most bullshyt reply i ever received on the coli 
i'm not vested into this at all, i do however have a basic understanding of business and the law, unlike you 
