Dear Roger,

You had a lot of inside showbiz experience as a musician and a producer.
I have several questions, to which you may answer at you will:

1)what is an average royalty rate for a band signed with one of any major labels ?

2)can record contract stipulate that band’s musicians will not paid on equal footing i.e. their royalties will be based on the number of songs written/co-written by the individual musician for a given album ?

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