It's a bit different in music. Hardly anyone does everything by himself, there's always some collaboration going on. Are you cheating if you let someone else master your tracks? No. Are you cheating if someone else plays instruments or even writes your songs? If you say yes, Elvis is a fraud since he's just singing, the music is written and performed by others. Where do you draw the line? The name associated with the music is just marketing, there's always other people involved too. If Sasha's sitting in the studio, telling the button-pusher to make a beat that goes boom-chak-boom-chak and a synthline that goes bowwowwowmeooow, he's contributing to the record so it's not cheating.Luis Isaac wrote:When it happens in the literature field it is considered as a fraud. I agree this thing doesn't happen with underground music because the reasons for making these kind of tracks are different of fame and gigs/mon.This is a little bit harsh topic and I want it to be more funnier, maybe It could be cool that producers had to prove the authority of the tracks showing the project files
Maybe if you're doing absolutely nothing it's a bit shady, but the name on the record is still just marketing, a business decision, not an artistic one. The name on the record doesn't affect the quality of the record in any way. The person who does most of the work probably does get paid accordingly, I doubt they mind selling thousands of copies instead of 10 copies.
