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MDRCs: the ‘Archaic’ Contract Clause That’s Harmed Many Songwriters
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variety.comGeoff Mayfield It might seem reasonable to expect a professional songwriter to have two songs officially released over the course of a year, and certainly within five or 10 years.
But as many have found out, it’s not that simple.What sounds like an easy lift gets more complicated when one factors in how few contemporary hits have been written by a sole composer — five to more than a dozen is the norm in the pop and hip-hop worlds — plus myriad other conditions that populate a contract clause known as “minimum delivery release commitment” (MDRC), a once-standard stipulation that is still frequently found in the publishing landscape.
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