{"id":5794,"date":"2016-01-14T06:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/14\/legal-conflict-between-avenged-sevenfold-and-warner-bros\/"},"modified":"2016-01-14T06:17:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:17:14","slug":"legal-conflict-between-avenged-sevenfold-and-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/01\/14\/legal-conflict-between-avenged-sevenfold-and-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal conflict between Avenged Sevenfold and Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Avenged-Sevenfold-BergenCalling-2011-Christian_Misje-5503.jpg\/220px-Avenged-Sevenfold-BergenCalling-2011-Christian_Misje-5503.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"210\" height=\"141\" \/><br \/>After releasing four studio albums for Warner Bros. Records since 2005, California rockers Avenged Sevenfold are trying to get out of their as-yet-unfulfilled recording contract, citing the state\u2019s famous &#8220;seven-year rule.\u201d  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>In turn, the label has filed a breach-of-contract suit against the hard rock act, seeking compensatory damages.<\/p>\n<p>The  \u201cseven-year rule\u201d of the\u00a0California Labor Code\u00a0allows parties to leave  personal service contracts under certain circumstances after seven years  have passed. Upon record industry lobbying, the 70-year-old law was  amended in the 1980s to allow record companies to claim lost profits on  uncompleted albums. Record companies, though, only have 45 days to do so  when an artist exercises the right to terminate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvenged  Sevenfold recently exercised the rights given them by this law and ended  its recording agreement with Warner Bros. Records,\u201d the band\u2019s attorney  Howard E. King said in a statement. Since the 2004 contract was signed,  King says the label \u201cunderwent multiple regime changes that led to  dramatic turnover at every level of the company, to the point where no  one on the current A&amp;R staff has even a nodding relationship with  the band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After releasing four studio albums for Warner Bros. Records since 2005, California rockers Avenged Sevenfold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}