Anita Baker Tells Fans to Boycott Her Music in Effort to Reclaim Her Masters
Mar 16, 2021 7:10 PM
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Miraculously. i have out-lived ALL, of my Artists Contracts They no longer Own , My Name & Likeness. And, by Law.30 yr old, Mstrs are 2B Returned, 2 Me Unfortunately, They re gonna make me Fight 4 it. I m Prepared, 2 do that. Please Dont advertise/buy them ABXO pic.twitter.com/PXe9xzsJK0 Anita Baker (@IAMANITABAKER) March 9, 2021
Legendary R&B singer Anita Baker recently asked her fans to boycott her music as she battles with her label for the right to own her masters.
Baker took to Twitter and revealed that she outlived her contractual obligations and was legally entitled to reclaim her masters. However, she claimed the music company is not letting her retrieve ownership of her master recordings and expressed that she was prepared to engage in a legal battle.
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Currently, the musical icon is battling for the rights to her master recordings.
She says that she is legally entitled to them, as she’s outlived all of her recording contracts, referencing copyright reversion, which allows musicians to have their copyrights after 35 years.
According to the Future of Music Coalition, the law doesn’t exactly state that the revision is automatic. On their website, they list the legal steps that a musician must take in order to reclaim their copyright.
In a series of tweets, she broke down what an artists earns from streaming. She referenced Prince’s struggle with streaming services, calling the industry giants “thieves in the temple.”
Anita Baker asks fans not to buy or stream her music as she battles for her masters
The soul music icon says she is legally entitled to her master recordings, referencing Prince in her tweets
On the eve of Grammy Sunday,
Anita Baker has asked fans not to buy or stream her music. The Detroit-based icon posted on Twitter last week that she’d outlived all of her recording contracts and that the right to her masters should legally revert to her. Baker is referencing copyright reversion, which allows musicians to retain their copyrights after 35 years.
However, the law doesn’t mean that that reversion is immediate, or automatic, according to the Future of Music Coalition, a music education and advocacy group. Per their website, there are steps a musician must take to regain their copyrights under the law.