. At Sony and WMG, the message was the same as what they say they want from the entire music business: Release survivors of sexual abuse from their potential NDAs and fire alleged abusers affiliated with the companies.
At Red Light’s offices, where Nikolas and a small group of protestors gathered twice in the past month, they called for the management company to comment on the allegations Nikolas leveled against Milosh, further asking why Red Light continues to represents him.
“These outrageous claims — which were clearly designed for the media, rather than for the courts — are completely without merit, and we eagerly look forward to proving so,” Bassnectar’s attorney Mitchell Schuster told“I want Red Light to know I’m still here,” Bowling toldAt a protest outside of Sony’s Culver City lot last week, a smaller Eat Predators group of just under 20 protesters accused the music company of being “a safe haven for predators” pointing toward current and former Sony artists...
Meanwhile at a demonstration outside WMG’s Los Angeles Offices last month, a significantly smaller group of five protesters including Nikolas called for WMG CEO Stephen Cooper to step down. The group demanded that WMG release any woman who may be under an NDA over sexual harassment allegations from their agreements, highlighting the story of former Warner Records A&R executive Samantha Maloney.
“NDAs that cover up sexual harassment allegations aren’t even allowed in California anymore,” Nikolas says, referencing the 2021 law that expanded restrictions against corporations in the state from using NDAs to silence employees who allege sexual harassment in settling lawsuits and administrative proceedings, though the law stops short of addressing NDAs that had previously been signed. “We’ve deemed [NDAs] to be wrong, but any victim who signed one in the past is still silent.