Davash222:

Wait, Gofundme was raised on her behalf Are Nigerians that gullible?

We claim that we no dey carry last but from my experience, Nigerians are one of the most, if not the most gullible people in the whole universe.

MrBrownJay1:
from the 50% of her royalties that the record label will receive, as stipulated in the contract.

yes, so out of her 1st cheque, the 50% of the video cost was suppose to have been deducted already... and unless CM had no cheques whatsoever for 3yrs (aka NO earning), i doubt the above to be true.



no no no.... here is the tricky part of the contract:"
company's production, marketing, manufacturing and all expenses bal bla shall be recouped from the GROSS INCOME.....meaning that when they receive the money, before Cynthia can get a cheque, the above will be repaid.....BUT the 50% cost of video production will be repaid from GROSS PROFIT... meaning that when they have repaid the above, what is left will be divided between label and artist, and she will now have to pay her 50% video cost out of her share. understand?!

gross income and gross profit are not the same thing....

I don't think she can pay half of the cost of a video from her first royalty check. As in video cost 4M (she owes 2M). The video brings in 8M, making profit 4M. Her profit is thus 2M with which she can pay her half. I'd like to see anywhere where a video brings 100% gross receipts. Did the video even break even? It will take several checks from her to at least to make 2M.

I agree with your point about gross profit. However, she has not demonstrated that she was cheated out of her profits. To be clear, she may have claimed, but has not demonstrated. She can bring her evidence to court (or social media), so we can do better accounting. In the absence of hard facts, we can only speculate, and I chose to side with the record label that has more to lose if found guilty of breach.

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

Jude was responsible for all the production.go read his interview with ednut.

sketcherJ:
Guys the title is not even the case. I took my time to read the content of this contract. I was kinda supporting Jude before but when I saw this contract. I just know that there is no way an artist would become rich in this record label.
How much will the artist make to pay production fee 50% and still share 50% with the company? Read guys!!

You’re smart. Only few people reading to dissect and understand.

Davash222:

Audio achievements.
Madam, Farabale.. We know your type. Abokki newspaper forming early twenties. Lol

Lol. . You got him.
My
Na u biko

Ishilove:
Nigerians are indeed very emotional. Now we have incontrovertible proof that Cynthia lied. In saner climes Jude can sue her for every Kobo she has (which isn't much to start with).

what a shame. This is why it's always prudent to jot/write whatever you do down. Chai!!!

nextstep:

We are circulating around the same thing:
- he claims he owes 100% of the videos while he doesnt
He owns 100% of the videos she did while in the label. Section 9 assigns performances (live, recorded, etc) 100% to him. Even if he paid only 50% of the cost, the contract assigns all of the video to him.

yes he owns the right DURING the duration of the contract, for distribution and commercial exploitation worldwide (aka FOR 4 YEARS).... and whatever happens she owns 50% of the royalties regardless of who own the songs

- he claims she owes him 100% of video production cost, while she doesnt
He paid 100% of the cost, she owes him her share (50%). I don't see a claim she owes 100% of the cost. Please point me to anywhere that claim is made.

contracts clearly stipulates that the repayment of artist 50% video cost shall be deducted from gross profit of artist earning... it means that, every time she was suppose to receive a cheque, the 50% should have been deducted.... and nowhere does it say that her vevo account shall be hijacked....

- he hijacked her vevo (and possibly royalties) while the contract says only a Lagos court can decide that.
If she feels there's a dispute, she is free to take him to court. However, section 15. (NON-CIRMUMVENTION) says essentially that "Artists shall not detrimentally interfere with the efforts of Company to distribute..." Since the music video belongs to the Label (section 9), and not to Cynthia, the label essentially owns how and when the video is played, including YouTube, Vevo, radio stations, etc. and can take steps to protect its property, including taking ownership of the page for the brand "Cynthia Morgan". She assigned that right in section 10 (LICENSE FOR USE OF NAME AND IMAGE).

you must have missed the part where it says that rights of all the above belongs to the label FOR FOUR YEARS, and after that they will only get 50% of royalties.

Contracts end, but the ownership of the songs remains with the Label. They own the rights (section 9), they own the copyright if assigned (section 12), and have sole, exclusive and perpetual ownership to the the songs (section 14) (i.e. forever).

YES, for distribution and commercial exploitation for 4 yrs, NOT for the rights and royalties of all entire songs she ever recorded in her career FOREVER... if the above was remotely true then paragraph 10 says the same for her artistic name meaning that she has no more rights to her own name Cynthia Morgan forever, lol!
so you are saying that, she signed a contract that says that after 4 yrs, she has no more rights to her royalties, correct?! whoever owns the song is irrelevant so long as we understand who gets the royalties here. so you mean 100% of the royalties of this songs goes to record label after 4 yrs, abi?!

Former employees don't come back to claim any rights to the work they did for a former employer (unless it was stimulated in contract)... I don't see how she can still own the songs (and all performances, including music videos) she assigned to somebody.

she was signed to a company that needs the rights to the song to receive her royalties and thus repay their investment, therefore OF COURSE the royalties of the songs goes to them for 4 years so that they can deduct production cost from gross income before giving her a cheque.,,, but it certainly does NOT stipulates that she loses her rights to 50% of the royalties, does it?

No

pasol4real:

Which ppl are donating ? Are u the one in charge of the account? How much did you donate?

Check it up online! The girl who interviewed her on IG setup the account for her and No I didn't contribute! I'm looking for people to give me money abi you no like money?

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

did U read that this contract wasn't prepared by Jude?? Cynthia and her then manager wrote and sent to Jude, all Jude did was paste on his letter headed and proceeded to signing... Stop being biased...

Ishilove:
Ask Nairaland oldies about my comment

That will be strenuous ma!
for inside this Covid-19 wahala again...
kindly help with the explanation yourself.

Millenniumlady:
Boy i'm better than you because what I've achieve right now in my early twenties you can't come close to that in your late 50s.

And you're begging people for 1k here on Nairaland. You think we didn't see it! Better calm down and let your helper help you.

I think you do not understand what contracting means. What they are doing is Joint venture agreement and it is allowed worldwide. If they agree 70:30 for instance, it means that whoever that has 70% will contribute 70% of the expenses and also have 70% of the profit and d same goes to 30% (30% expenses and 30% profit). In their case what they have is 50:50 (which is 50% expenses and 50% profit)

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

nextstep:
I don't think she can pay half of the cost of a video from her first royalty check. As in video cost 4M (she owes 2M). The video brings in 8M, making profit 4M. Her profit is thus 2M with which she can pay her half. I'd like to see anywhere where a video brings 100% gross receipts. Did the video even break even? It will take several checks from her to at least to make 2M.

thats what the contract says, now how they made her repay the 50% video cost, i dont know... only the books can tell us that.

I agree with your point about gross profit. However, she has not demonstrated that she was cheated out of her profits. To be clear, she may have claimed, but has not demonstrated. She can bring her evidence to court (or social media), so we can do better accounting. In the absence of hard facts, we can only speculate, and I chose to side with the record label that has more to lose if found guilty of breach.

she never said she was cheated out of earnings just that her Vevo account was hijacked and she couldnt even use her name.... and regardless of what she says, what the record label is doing is against the contract and/or law.

MPESA:
Not necessary or must we have the same opinion or point of view on issue but at least try to be reasonable at a point.

we are different (and there is nothing wrong with that), i bring my point to the table, you can bring yours, no big deal... if you disagree with what i write, then counter what i wrote with your opinion. thats the beauty of NL.

if you expect me to have the same views as yours, every single time, while the foundation of NL is for everyone to have a platform to voice their different opinion on a subject, is truly funny.

Edoloaded:
I see many people here forming Odogwu and judging what they don't know and forming woke.

The same Jude that no artist under his Label was able to last 3 years...

Is it Waje , Mayd , Cynthia Morgan ? Even Psquare split under him.


So upon all the accusations against jude na just name he wan take defend himself, he is mad. Why did he not react to what May D said or what Peter said. The Bible said affliction will not rise for a second time.

If this recent publicity is God's way of bringing Madrina (Cynthia Morgan) into the limelight after all the suffering there's nothing Jude or you Nairaland trolls or anybody else can do to stop it

Sorry, this is not how God works

She had a good deal o 50 - 50.Kiss Daniel was paid 20 thousand naira after every show.

She is trending for wrong reason my millennium lady...Babe squandered all her money on drugs and clubbing.

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

Any body that wants to do a deal with her now has to think twice.

idonhammer:
She is trending for wrong reason my millennium lady...Babe squandered all her money on drugs and clubbing.

You are absolutely right. She was even disturbing her neighbors in Omole with it.

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

walk into any bank and see if there is one bank that will shoulder your risk, 100% ...there is what is called capital gearing ratio.

As a company , NorthsIde have acknowledged that the artist is new and doesn't have the resources but she is still shares 50% of the risk of commercialising her talent , on paper ...what more can they do for her?

It is because of that risk ratio that she got entitled to a generous profit sharing ratio as well even though she didn't risk a dime of her personal resources on her talent. If they took the risk, 100% and gave her 20% net , most ignoramus would have been shouting that she was cheated


He blocked you because you are not in his class to know what is business ...he doesn't deal with emotional bombs but people with thinking brain

Ishilove:

Sauce link?

Chicken SAUCE..

Joshmodest:
I've said this several times ....
Nigeria lacks a formal record label pattern, all we have here are sponsors scamming artists in the name of helping them. Most of these artists have unrealistic and outrageous contracts they carry about , all in the name of trying to blow , and end up being at the mercy of the sponsors e.g brymo , Runtown and kiss Daniel ..
Cynthia remains my all time fave dancehall artist in Nigeria ,her song with stonebwoy is a classic !!

That's bubble bop. I love that shit too.

Edoloaded:
I see many people here forming Odogwu and judging what they don't know and forming woke.

The same Jude that no artist under his Label was able to last 3 years...

Is it Waje , Mayd , Cynthia Morgan ? Even Psquare split under him.


So upon all the accusations against jude na just name he wan take defend himself, he is mad. Why did he not react to what May D said or what Peter said. The Bible said affliction will not rise for a second time.

If this recent publicity is God's way of bringing Madrina (Cynthia Morgan) into the limelight after all the suffering there's nothing Jude or you Nairaland trolls or anybody else can do to stop it

I agree with you.

am just passing by

Ruq:
It's obvious she lied. When you look at how she responded when she said "she had dirt on Jude" She couldn't look straight into the camera and was willing to quickly move on to another topic.

Shut up you don't know shit!

Sanchez01:
Cynthia Morgan may not have been truthful when she said she can no longer use the name 'Cynthia Morgan' because it was contained in her record label that the label owns the name and that she is prohibited from using it.

The only time it is mentionedt that her name and images would be used is when the label wants to promote her materials, such as her singles, albums, EPs, and possibly videos.

She had the exclusive rights to use her name all along, contrary to what she said in the Instagram Interview she had with Sandra.

And what does she stand to gain in changing her name to Madrina or whatever. I expect you to be thinking outside the box

Sanchez01:
Cynthia Morgan may not have been truthful when she said she can no longer use the name 'Cynthia Morgan' because it was contained in her record label that the label owns the name and that she is prohibited from using it.

The only time it is mentionedt that her name and images would be used is when the label wants to promote her materials, such as her singles, albums, EPs, and possibly videos.

She had the exclusive rights to use her name all along, contrary to what she said in the Instagram Interview she had with Sandra.

She definitely isn't. Her former manager said she drafted the contract, Cynthia reviewed it before both forwarded to Jude who only put his label's letterhead there before CM signed it.

I'm wondering how Jude is the villain here when he had no part in drafting the contract

Millenniumlady:
Boy i'm better than you because what I've achieve right now in my early twenties you can't come close to that in your late 50s.

I don't want to talk before but this your comment shows that you're in abject poverty claiming to have achieved greatly in your early 20s.
Screenshot your account balance and send it here.

Who has don't shout okay!
Poor masses.

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

U sure say u read or as usual sentiments beclouded ur conclusion.

Feraz:
She definitely isn't. Her former manager said she drafted the contract, Cynthia reviewed it before both forwarded to Jude who only put his label's letterhead there before CM signed it.

I'm wondering how Jude is the villain here when he had no part in drafting the contract

if you read the contract, and compare it with what has been done.... he is indeed the villain, and the former manager is just standing next to him while they break the rules of the said contract and/or the law.

Millenniumlady:
It's obvious jude is a user why would an upcoming artist pay 50% of her production among other things you still had the gut to say the profit should be 50%50 like seriously boy ? If you're not paying for the cost of production as a company then don't bring the 50/50 deal on the table he wanted to kill her career thanks to the creator she's back on her feet and she's currently the no.1 artist trending in Africa without releasing a single yet so jude can go back to where he belong THE STREETS.....He blocked me on Instagram cause I curse am no be small

This is even better compared to what other label offer.

Applicable in the US too.

Did she not review the contract before she signed?

When a woman tells an emotional story, that’s when you should be more alert than ever.