Four Tet Continues Legal Action For Fairer Artist Deals
News spread quickly last autumn when UK musician Kieran Hebden, who performs and produces under the name Four Tet, instigated legal action against his label of 20 years, Domino Records. “It was a timely challenge that amplifies artists’ growing frustration in the streaming era,” Aneesh Patel, Hebden’s lawyer, told me of his decision to single-handedly take the indie giant to court. His plea received accolades across the music industry, and even among the ranks of UK parliament, whose MP Kevin Brennan shared Hebden’s tweet from November 21st:
