Artist exploitation

Artist exploitation refers to the phenomenon of artists being exploited by the commercial interests involved in publishing their work and denied their appropriate financial share of the profits engendered via their work.
This is a common phenomenon among naive young rock and roll musicians, where the record labels will have the artist sign deceptive and complex contracts and then 'creatively' adjust their financial accounting to justify minimal royalty payments to the artist. It is also the reason many rock musicians make most of their money via touring, where they are more directly in control of the profits.
Artist exploitation is a special case of exploitation in general.
Examples of artist exploitation
Winston Groom, the author of the novel Forrest Gump, claimed the movie studio Paramount denied him his fair share of the profits by using accounting tricks to claim the film was a failure.
of the group Bob Marley and the Wailers sued Island Records for royalty payments.

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