“Mr. Thorne.”The Legal Director, Mr. Davies, quickly assembled his team. I wasted no words, directly tossing a document I’d prepared onto the conference table.All eyes in the room focused on me.“Within thirty minutes, I need three things simultaneously published across all online platforms.”
“First, issue a cease and desist letter. Publicly expose Sera Hayes’ severe violation of her non-compete clause and her malicious manipulation of public opinion to attack the company during her contract period. From this moment on, freeze all commercial activities and copyright revenues associated with that stage name.”Mr. Davies’ eyes lit up.When I first signed Sera Hayes, she was an unknown nobody named “Sarah Miller.”
I insisted on keeping full ownership and commercial rights to the stage name “Sera Hayes” firmly with the company precisely to prevent a situation like this from ever happening.“Second, contact all our partner music platforms and media channels. Release this audio file publicly at the same time.”
I plugged a USB drive into the conference room computer and opened a folder.Inside were hundreds of audio files, recordings of her every studio session over the past five years.I randomly clicked one open, and shrill, off-key vocals instantly filled the entire conference room.It was a raw, unedited vocal track straight from the recording studio.A young lawyer couldn’t help but frown.“I want everyone to hear these audio files.”
