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Van Halen
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/van-halen-2012-video-interview/

Van Halen remembers bad record deals and corrupt accountants in a video interview.

Controlled Composition Clause and Excess Mechanical Royalties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7aZKAKg3M

Michele Singer talks about the meaning of a controlled composition clause and excess mechanical royalties. She makes the point that a controlled composition clause deals with compositions owned and controlled by the artist and that every record company asks the artist to grant the record company rights to control part of the artist’s composition. She then goes on to discuss the number of songs a record company will pay the artist for on an album and how an artist sometimes owes the record company for having to pay mechanical royalties for covers of other people’s songs.

AIMP Forum: the History of 360 Deals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GJpVbLYEw

In a panel discussion held at a meeting of the AIMP (Association of Independent Music Publishers Forum), moderator Don Passman discusses the recent history of the music industry with an eye toward the structural changes within the industry which have brought about the need for companies to innovate and find any way to generate revenue that they can in the case of record labels, the so-called 360 deal. Passman discusses the origin of 360 deals and why they have become popular and poses a question for the panel: Do 360 deals amount to a naked land grab by record labels, or are they a legitimate and measured strategy by record labels to continue to offer artists the services they render in such a way as to keep the bottom line in the black?

AIMP: Who Is Making 360 Deals and How Do They Work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyPlwRZ41kw&feature=related

The panelists sum up the previous hour with some thoughts about whether 360 deals are here to stay, , and what flavors and subclasses of 360 deals are beginning to evolve.