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Lessons from Prince: Why artists should take control of their work

A month or so ago, The Standard’s online edition carried a curious item on the late artist Prince. The article’s author speculated on the possibility that Prince’s financial status may have been negative at the time of his death and alleged the possibility of an indebted estate.

The author of this article seems to have been the only one privy to this purportedly dire state of Prince’s finances. One suspects that given the anonymity of “sources”, the origin of the article, and some of the other rather salacious allegations made in the piece, this was an angle adopted merely to drive up sales.

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