Industry Problems

It has been brought to my attention that even throughout your career, there are various reasoning for certain individuals to pursue a lawsuit against you, or having items stolen from you that could later on affect your career. A perfect example of that would be the incident between artist and producer Ryan Leslie and one of his employees that stole his laptop back in October of 2010. Mr. Leslie made the offer that if the individual would return his laptop he would offer a million dollars just to return his belongings back to Ryan Leslie. Ryan would eventually receive his laptop, however he would not hold up his end of the bargain by giving the 1 million to the individual who gave back the laptop. So in retaliation, "The German finder Armin Augstein has sued in hopes of getting what was rightfully promised." As I continued to look up industry liabilities I came across two more articles that dealt with artist that deal with loss revenues due to illegal file sharing and new way music being distributed online.  One example I came across was that on October 30th 2012 an author by the name of Ben Sisario discussed some issue about Eminem's  problems about some digital royalties in a lawsuit. The case was entitled F.B.T. Productions v. Aftermath Records. This was a group of producers who sued a subsidiary of Universal Music Group because they were feeling that they were not getting the right amount of royalties that was supposed to be given to them from iTunes and possibly other stores that were digitally included in the entertainment industry. Also, according too an article from NYTimes.com, Chuck D from the music group known as "Public Enemy” also took part in filing a lawsuit against Universal Music over digital royalties. His argument was that Universal had been miscalculating Public Enemies royalties for digital downloads such as MP3 and ring tones. It is stated that artist are due to receive 10 to 20 percent of royalties in record sales.