E.via splits with agency, forced to use new name, chooses Tymee

[koganbot]

Sad situation: E.via posted on Twitter that she's split with her agency, Dline Art Media, and that they're not letting her take her stage name E.via with her. The issue seems to be almost total nonpayment over the last two years. (Allkpop provides a translation.) Even if we take into account that we're only getting her side of the story, it

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please, please read carefully please

[koganbot]

Actually, in a part Allkpop doesn't print, she may or may not be getting tougher. Here's the experimental avant-garde confetti Google Translate prints out for a section some of which seems to be advice to aspiring performers:

travelers also need to know the fans are confused that you have the right to think, contemplate and writing, even close friends . "Via " going to still wrote the article has been removed and now half of my identity , bank called life that they should be erased from the mind where you need to tell whether stuffy hands were trembling, and entering other cheat black heart. loving family, friends, Fan Good inconvenience worry, we're sorry a hundred times I'd like to tell you, but I can keep things , although I will keep a small space, but it means you can communicate with fans, even if deprived is really painful, and, above all, music invariably promised will wants and dreams and ambitions with music all contracts and all those hundreds of thousands of times throughout the document, please, please read carefully

[koganbot]

If the issue is what E.via is owed for the last two years, and that means 2011 and 2012, the amount likely won't be as much as she'd have been due for 2009 and 2010, the years of "Hey!" and "Oppa! Can I Do It?" and "Shake!" and "Pick Up! U!" But still, if what she was being told is accurate, the numbers the agency is giving her do seem ridiculous. Not that I've seen the books or know. Maybe the agency can point to legitimate expenses that they can subtract under contract (which would make the contract the issue not whether Dline Art Media are following it; maybe the contract is ridiculously bad; maybe it's normal; maybe it's normal and the norm is ridiculously bad).

[askbask]

Slightly related (while taking this in and thinking to myself that while things like this seem to happen the fact that she can't keep her name seems very weird and something I personally wouldn't have given up on that easily (maybe it isn't given up on easily, but it seems like she wants to move on more than anything and I'd try to work abit more on that with some lawyers before moving on) - in general prices for the digital download services here in Korea have doubled as of January 1st. Will be interesting to see how it affects Gaon and if labels will report increased earnings.

"This raises the share of profits from music files sales that go to copyright holders from 50 percent to 60 percent. An extra 10 percentage points will be added each year until 2016." (not sure what the last sentence means)

http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2964819

[koganbot]

I remember the great general admiration for Johnny Rotten when, after he quit the Sex Pistols, he changed his stage name to his real name, John Lydon, abandoning "Johnny Rotten" and its high-name recognition and commercial appeal. He was considered wise (his understanding that if you tried to institutionalize and repeat and live off the Sex Pistols' achievement, you were in effect undoing that achievement) and therefore full of integrity (his refusing to coast commercially on his past with the Sex Pistols). But what I hadn't known, and what I don't think was generally known, was that Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren said he had the rights to the name "Johnny Rotten" and had gotten an injunction against Lydon using it. (One caveat: this is according to Simon Reynolds, in his book Rip It Up And Start Again, and Reynolds sometimes gets things wrong