Record companies are trying to keep artists from re-recording their songs for longer periods — and in some cases ever again. By Steve Knopper While Taylor Swift has been racking up billions of ...

A contract, yesterday. (Image credit: Getty Images/Florin1605) 5. Ancillary Rights . Ancillary rights are often included in record deals and mean that an artist may have to share income from ...

But I would rather do a sub-contract with a record label to have label services or certain things that I think the label will be able to do better for me. “That’s what you see all the big ...