Record Companies

[Suspicious Minds]

Just thinking about who owns their own recordings.
Do the record companies own the tracks out right, even when the singers write their own songs?
I have noticed that some singers have re-recorded their hit records to make them their tracks and not the record companies (company's).
Because of paper work I think the singers get tricked out of their own rcordings. I know they get royalties but that is not very much per record.

[Suspicious Minds]

I thought somebody would know the answer to my questions.

[poormansgold]

It's base On The the records Companies % and The writers % and The Company Own The Recordings %. , something liked that it , I can Be wrong about this. With Things Changes Now.
Tom

[kamikazeeab2003]

Traditionally, the record company pays for the sessions which gives them the ownership of the recordings. There have beeen several cases when certain aritist have bought the masters from the record companies to have them for their own use as they see fit. Such is the case with Garth Brooks who recorded for Capitol/Liberty. He bought all his master recordings and re-released them on his own Pearl Records. In other cases, the Artist will be known to pay for their own sessions, and then will lease the masters to the record company they are signed with.

James

[KPM]

I think it depends on the contract the artist has with the company.
So many variations of how a contract can be drawn up in this situation that its hard to answer.