SIGNING A CONTRACT FOR A RECORDING DEAL WITHOUT READING AND UNDERSTANDING THE FINE PRINT.

How many times have we heard these words “read the fine print before signing a document”? Yet many persons ignore this warning and sign documents without even perusing it much less reading it. Signing a document for a recording deal without reading the fine print can be very detrimental to a seasoned singer/entertainer much less a young, up-coming, inexperienced, still wet behind the ears singer. The biggest ‘lie’ that people tell in this world is that they have ‘agreed’ to the Terms and Agreement of a document, yet they have never even read the first line of the document. This happens a lot on the Internet. The document is often very long and complicated with legal jargons that we cannot be bothered to read. I am guilty of doing this all the time; I always laugh and believe that it is okay because everyone does this. In an article I found on the Internet there is this young man who discovered the hard way that it pays to read the fine print. It cost