Needful Things
You can't always get what you want . . . or can you?
Because I'm an occasional rock 'n' roll lawyer,
aspiring pop idols sometimes seek me out. Usually the deals
they're offered are awful. Yet one desperate singer showed me a
contract that promised to put him not in the "surf music"
but the "serf music" genre--the terms would have
made a feudal overlord blush. I was frank with my prospective
client: "It is mathematically impossible for you to make one
nickel on this deal. Why bother?"
"But you don't understand," he pleaded. "I
just gotta get a record deal!"
A speaker and attorney in Los Angeles, Marc Diener is the
author of Deal Power: 6 Foolproof Steps to Making Deals of Any
Size(Owl Books/henry Holt). you can reach him at MarcDiener@aol.com
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