Beatstars producers
I just learned something about beat leases that honestly caught me off guard, and I want to know how other artists feel about this.
I always understood that when you lease a beat, the producer still owns the beat. That’s completely fair they created it, and I’m paying for the right to use it.
But I recently started reading the actual fine print on some BeatStars leases and found clauses saying that the artist does not own the master or sound recording rights to the new song they create with the beat.
So I’m the artist writing the lyrics, recording the vocals, potentially paying for the recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, video, marketing, etc., but the producer can still retain ownership of the finished master?
So my question to artists and producers is: did y’all already know this? And do you think it’s fair for a producer to retain ownership of the master of the new recording when they’re licensing an already created beat?