To make sense of all that has transpired in 2020 and what it portends for the media and entertainment sectors going forward, Variety spoke with a cross section of industry leaders about the broad theme of change.
What motivated you to launch Black Ambition, a nonprofit initiative to help Black and Latinx entrepreneurs gain access to capital and resources? Speaking of the importance of ownership, isn’t this precisely the same message you’ve been advocating as it relates to artists’ rights and the imperative for musicians to own their original recordings?
It’s really unfortunate, you know. There was room for him to make his acquisition because that’s just the way the business is, and I felt for her and not being able to be in control of it. There’s a system in place that’s just all wrong. He’s a businessman and he also represents artists, so from his point of view he’s just making an acquisition of something that he felt would be a good investment.
It was a huge milestone, but it shouldn’t be, and we shouldn’t be celebrating that because I shouldn’t be one of let’s call it dozens of people who own their original recordings. A master recording is the original, and every other copy is the slave. We got them to take that out of their language in all the contracts for the Sony companies. It’s all over the place — you know, master bedroom — so there’s a lot of language that we need to change.
Yes, and we should probably call the third Thursday of November Family Indigenous Reflection Day, of course, but we call it something completely different and celebrate this narrative that the founders came to the country and were really nice to these people. …
Where is Pharrell?
Put pharrell's pic in place of scooterat
She walked away from her masters before Scooter Braun was ever in the picture and wasn't complaining then.
Where is pharrell 🤦♂️😭
King
repost besties. i don't want that ugIy rat 🛴 on my tl
why didnt u put pharrell in the pic?
didnt know pharrell turned into a white rat overnight, delete and change the pic come on dont be shy
king
tf is this, you really put scooter there instead of pharell?🙄