Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ken Moore wrote:
>> I suspect that in the future, recording companies will have to
negotiate specific contracts with editors that exclude performance
royalties or agree a reasonable figure for them, and prepare their own
editions if editors of existing ones are too grasping.
> In Europe this is already the case, there is nothing new about it.
Yes, but it's new to the UK.
> Whether we like it or not (and I specifically said in the very
> beginning of this argument that I am not taking sides), I think we do
> have to realize that Hyperion was rather careless in going about their
> business, and they got the bill for it.
Yes. I would put it more specifically: the late Ted Perry ignored
Sawkins' demands as obviously ridiculous under UK law as we all thought
it stood at the time. By the time the legal band-wagon got rolling, he
had died and his son, Simon, had to make some high-speed decisions from
a position of very partial knowledge of the business, but presumably his
lawyers thought the same as the rest of us (everyone except Sawkins'
team and the judge). There is a good summary of the history, the UK
view, and the possible ramifications of the matter at:
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=852322004
--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer
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