Cherrytree Records founder, musician and Interscope senior A&R exec Martin Kierszenbaum has emphasised the need for artists to get paid fairly for creating intellectual property.

Speaking to Billboard, Kierszenbaum said: “A lot of people say that recorded music should be a loss leader, to sell other things, whether they be T-shirts or live tickets. I vehemently disagree with that. I’m a musician who took piano lessons, who studied, who rehearsed, and I think that when you create intellectual property, ...