Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
Session players are simply contract labor just like gazillions of other types of contract labor. If somebody is a physics major and contracts for 18 months with a tech company to help develop a warp drive or whatever, anything he discovers or invents while working with them belongs to that company and people sign contracts to that effect upfront. Musicians aren't the only ones who can be very creative and royalties from inventions are just as large if not larger than royalties from hit records.

I know we all like to think musicians get continually screwed (we do) but we're not the only ones. The exact same thing goes on in non music corporate America every day. We all have the same choice. Hire yourself out for a wage or fixed contract amount with bene's or form your own company and keep it all assuming there's anything left after expenses.

Bob


This is spot on. I put almost 40 years in research for a once very large photo company. Our job was to invent and that we did. I am on 25 patents but the company owns the technology. Granted the more I did the more I got paid but I would be at least a millionaire it I owned the technology.

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