“A record company can be a beneficial thing - to have a team of people around the world to help you realize your dream - but a corporation that engages artists with these convoluted contracts that leaves them in a state of terminal debt? Just because you can get away with something doesn’t mean it’s okay to do. “This was not a fight against a record company, but against corruption,” Leto clarifies to The Hollywood Reporter. and the studio system in the 1940s - only to be slapped with a $30 million lawsuit for damages on the yet-to-be-recorded albums. 30STM then aimed to exit its nine-year contract with Virgin Records/EMI - citing the De Havilland law, a California labor code put in place after Olivia de Havilland fought victoriously against Warner Bros. The documentary, which was shaved down from over 40,000 hours of footage and took nearly four years to complete, first zooms in on the band in 2008, after breaking alternative chart records with the song “The Kill.” As they began to create what would become their 2010 album This Is War, they discovered their unexplained $2 million debt, despite their newfound success. After nabbing a slew of acting awards for his turn as transgender drug addict Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club, Jared Leto is refocusing on music.īut before Thirty Seconds to Mars’ recently announced summer tour, the legal battles of the band’s past will be fully rehashed, when Leto’s music biz documentary Artifact airs Saturday on VH1 and Palladia.
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