Kanye West suggests new guidelines for recording and publishing deals: “Every artist must be treated fairly”
(WorldNews Music)

Kanye West has shared some suggested new guidelines for recording and publishing deals in the future. The rapper has spent the last week discussing contracts, masters and rights issues in the music industry on Twitter and is advocating for fairer treatment for all artists. Read more: New bands: own your masters, it`s more important than you think In a new thread started earlier today (September 20), the star broke his guidelines down into sections pertaining to royalties, dependants, advances and more. West`s first point stated that artists should own the copyright to their recordings and songs outright and then lease them “to the record label/publisher for a limited term”, suggesting that...