A musician begins a collaboration on her second album with an experienced music producer who is also the president of the Austrian Composers Association as well as a lecturer at ipop at the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
She trusts his proposal to agree on shares in future profits, publishing rights as well as composition rights from the jointly created versions of works (the original titles are by the musician alone) instead of payment.
She invests time as well as her own money in the entire production, in which musicians hired by her record the instrumental tracks externally and deliver them, and she herself records her vocal tracks in an external studio with her own vocal producer team and also delivers them. All songs are written by her.
Ultimately, she has to take legal action to save herself from an abstrusively high, existence-threatening monetary claim on the part of the music producer. The court agrees with the artist.
We are publishing this article with the name of the music producer. He is the president of the Austrian Composers Association, the largest Austrian composers' association, which represents the interests of composers, as well as a lecturer at ipop of the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The immediate trigger was a statement by Harald Hanisch on September 19, 2023, in which he shows himself to be inconsistent. This is the case of the musician Anne Eck.
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