[VerbTech]

i posted up a rough of my part of Life is Unfair collab.....waiting on anyone else who wants in on it.........

btw that was a pretty hysterical battle between the two........

[SpellBound]

Originally Posted by RingerINC And speaking of shadowville and contests, http://www.shadowville.com/contest

^ From the fine print: Shadowville Productions shall co-exclusively own all rights to in and to the video, lyrics, vocals, and master recording therein.

That alone makes this contest wack

[_-=FiRe=-_]

^Yeah I too read that, it was pretty big deterrent for me, also the fact that they say they're looking for the most "marketable" product just screams "LET'S RAPE THE MUSIC FOR MONEY". After reading the whole contest rules section, I doubt I'll waste my time with that, the exposure isn't worth not winning and if I by some freak chance win with my unmarketable voice, my song'll just get stolen by them.

[SpellBound]

For sure. The exposure they're giving isn't even that great. Now, if you could find some local contest in your city that'll give radio spins for the winner, that'd be something to jump on.

To be honest though, you guys should stop doing contest verses and just do some legit tracks. It's my opinion of course, but anybody can drop a random sixteen for a contest that tells you what the concept is. It takes a real emcee to drop an entire fresh song with an original concept.

[AJTL]

I agree with Spell. I just do the contests for fun. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FOR FUN

[_-=FiRe=-_]

To those that say beauty's in the eye of the beholder/
Beauty is everywhere, you're just to stupid to notice/

Discuss.*

Also, I agree with spell with the whole tracks thing.

*The above bar is an idea that really didn't mesh with the rest of the song I'm writing so I thought I'd throw it out there for you guys to discuss since I found it rather controversial (Can beauty be found everywhere? Is there a limit to subjectivity? etc.).

[AJTL]

I say beauty IS everywhere and there ISN'T a limit to subjectivity.

[Diamond]

By the way. what shadowville say about them, owning the master recording etc is bullshit. Copyright law doesn't work that way. The person who WROTE the lyrics, owns the copyright to said lyrics unless they sign an official document to say otherwise. Similarly, those who actually record the master recordings own teh copyright there, UNLESS the artist pays the person who performed the recording (usually a producer or sound engineer - and I mean producer, not beat maker) the only thing they own is the copyright to their beat, nothing more, nothing less. SO ignore their bullshit.

[RingerINC]

lol sif you'd actually make any money with the track you won with.

[_-=FiRe=-_]

Originally Posted by Diamond By the way. what shadowville say about them, owning the master recording etc is bullshit. Copyright law doesn't work that way. The person who WROTE the lyrics, owns the copyright to said lyrics unless they sign an official document to say otherwise. Similarly, those who actually record the master recordings own teh copyright there, UNLESS the artist pays the person who performed the recording (usually a producer or sound engineer - and I mean producer, not beat maker) the only thing they own is the copyright to their beat, nothing more, nothing less. SO ignore their bullshit.

IIRC their little "rules" thingy also mentioning making the artist legally bound to sign any document necessary to grant them control or something along those lines.

@ringer: Considering it's basically a mainstream appeal contest, I figure if by some freak chance one of us wins, that would mean that the track has enough appeal to the masses to be marketable.

[Tuddles]

jmac could take it

[AJTL]

LOL the KING.

[JRod]

AJ, how do you feel about ron artest

[AJTL]

OMG IT LOOKS LIKE ITS REALLY HAPPENING... Daaamn I liked Ariza, but Artest seems like a good fit also. AND he's one of my favorite players.

But maaan I really wanted to keep Ariza...

[Diamond]

Shit, Artest's one of my fave players, why do you mufuckers get him?