Justin Bieber Hires New Lawyer To Get Him Out of 4-Year Contract With Scooter Braun

[stewie_e]

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do for Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun, With Four Years Left on Their Contract https://t.co/PSa01tVOn0
- billboard (@billboard) August 24, 2023
Justin Bieber has hired a new lawyer (David Lande at Ziffren Brittenham) to help him get out of his contract with Scooter Braun, only problem is is that he has 4 years left in his

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[ky16]

Tbh the whole article does not point to much other then Justin is signed long term and it’s gonna be a mess to get out of his current deal. Also he seems he be dropping everyone. Also they kind of focus in on Justin (and a lesser extent Ariana) bc it sounds like the others all left at various points earlier this year/last year and likely at the end of contracts/without much legal affairs.

This won’t interest most of the people hoping for a big scandalous story but the stuff about Justin not being in a great place for a new manager was interesting. The stuff about him owing AEG bc of the tour cancellations is also in line with what Belloni was saying.

“A new manager would also face limited options for finding new income opportunities. Bieber is still under a recording contract with Def Jam as he currently works on his seventh studio album, meaning there’s no new multi-million-dollar label deal on the immediate horizon. He also sold his publishing, artist royalties from his master recordings and neighboring rights to Hipgnosis for over $200 million earlier this year. And he remains under contract with AEG Presents, which has promoted his concerts since his inaugural My World Tour in 2010.”

[treats]

It does seem that he wants to be done with scooter and fired the lawyer scooter got 4 him so he's feeling burnt in some way. It also confirmed the sunset clause thingy

It sounds like justin's kinda fucked no? Like he did not handle his business well

[bluestoplights]

Kinda sad because he clearly did not have people looking out for his best interests financially at all

[smegma]

i don't think anyone has ever looked out for his best interests, full stop.

[bluestoplights]

yep

[goldenhera]

It doesn't confirm that a sunset clause exists. It talks about a sunset clause being part of a financial structure an artist uses to leave a manager while still under contract.

[ky16]

The sunset clause thing seems to be an industry standard thing from what I’ve been reading. Taylor friends tweet was true but also kind of misleading (which checks out lol). In this case it seems to apply bc Justin is trying to leave a contract with 4 years remaining and he doesn’t have “cause” to terminate the agreement. He’ll either need to pay a lump sum that they’d agree on or pay a sunset clause (a series of payments over the remaining life of the contract). Basically he can’t just “fire” Scooter bc he no longer likes him bc he’s in a contractual agreement with him.

It does sound like he’s kind of fucked business wise and maybe that’s why he’s leaking things to give himself leverage bc he doesn’t have much. The article even says it could take years and that he also may not even leave at this point. He’s still an appealing artist to manage but he’s not a gold starlet at the moment bc all the things in the above paragraph

If I had to guess this particular exit is more about Justin’s finances then Scooter himself. Belloni said he’d have more but the podcast hinted at this and that Ariana’s exit is more about Scooter not being available 24/7

[goldenhera]

Yeah, the article wasn't particularly scandalous.