HW/NIK: Question for Messrs Anderson & Turner

[Doug Pearson]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:23:22 +0100, Colin J Allen
<colin at CALLEN18.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote:
>Dave Brock has never received any royalties for Yuri or any of the other
>Dave Anderson releases.

Interesting ... so that would have to mean either:

A) Songwriting/publishing royalties have not been paid to EMI music by Demi
Monde or any of the other companies Dave Anderson licensed the recordings
to.

OR

B) Anderson & co. (labels, etc.) *have* paid songwriting/publishing
royalties to EMI music (presumably not directly, but through some
performers' rights society) for the songs on Yuri, SR2 & Text of Festival,
but EMI doesn't have to share any of those royalties with the actual
songwriters for presumably some arcane contractual reason (which might
explain a thing or two ... ).

If A is the case, that would represent a rather unusual attitude towards
copyright violation for a major publishing company.  While B would be (IMO)
more indicative of the expected behavior of a major publishing company.

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com