re: Rock band Yellowcard will continue $15M lawsuit against rapper Juice Wrld after death.

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His 1st single released 16 years ago. Did he sign a lifetime contract?

I get when you're a young, starving artist without many avenues to make it big. But once you're already successful, if you continue to sign those contracts, then it's hard to feel sorry for you.

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Apparently the contracts are somehow contingent on future contracts. It borderlines the legal statute of lifetime. I forget all of the ins and outs of the article I read. There were retirement restrictions as well if I recall correctly. I saw a headline about Kanye feeling his contract was unfair. I kinda thought boohoo also but decided to see what it was and remember it actually sounding pretty crappy. It wasn't a "lifetime contract", but the way it works, it is basically a lifetime contract. When he retires, he loses any rights to his music.

Then I read a little more and found quite a few bands and artists are in the same situation. The label apparently controls everything about your music except the actual content itself. Marketing, where it can and can't play, how much it sales for etc. . .

And again, I could absolutely care less about any celebrity really. But I've heard this similar musical ownership complaint from quite a few bands that you would think would have a decent agent. Another example was Motley Crue.