12.02
DGM HQ.
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A morning of continuing astonishments in the daily portion of deceit & exploitation I know as the music industry.
Today’s is in the form of two particular instruments of the industry; one is old, the other is new. The new works according to the same well-established precepts of the old, as I understand them: exploitation & theft. Theft is a hard word, so perhaps it’s better to write – not theft! it’s just that the artist doesn’t get paid for their work! and this where Virgin EMI already acknowledges much of our case.
Kitchen discussions on this topic I…
The second-tier lawyer we are dealing with at EMI is the same man who came to DGM HQ in 2003, when we were considering re-licensing the KC/RF catalogue to EMI for a further term of years: this was our preferred option. However, EMI’s second-tier lawyer explained to us although downloads weren’t important, it was EMI standard policy to have download rights - even though download rights were not importantI Our reply, that as download rights are not important, we’ll keep them, had a logic that did not seem to persuade him. And as the terms for payment on downloads were not then established in the industry, it was a question of – give us the download rights that are not important and we’ll figure out what we pay you for them later!
This was not a proposition that convinced us, so we declined to grant the unimportant downloading rights & all other releasing rights in the KC catalogue 1969-2000, which reverted to DGM. This did not, however, prevent EMI from continuing to release the catalogue nor from putting up material for download. A little rich, perhaps, given how the majors prosecute little guys that fileshare?
This is the outline of our audit report sent to EMI in February, but which has not yet been given any serious attention by them…
This will change, and very soon.
What is Mr. Stormy doing?...
Our pal, dear old Mr. Stormy, is in DGM SoundWorld I working on this…
14.03 Off to Southbourne to visit Uncle Bill.
19.14 Uncle Bill is in good shape I…
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… probably in better shape than his nephew. I was delivering a birthday present, a Sony MP3 vox recorder, along with some gooey cakes.
Then returning to DGM HQ via Wilton & Romain’s Emporium Of Antiquities & Wonder. Mr. Romain was also in good shape…
… and very kindly gave me some second copies of books by AG Street...
an author / farmer who came from just outside Wilton, a man of Mr. Romain’s acquaintance. The Dorset equivalent to Wiltshire’s AG Street was Ralph Wightman, an author-farmer who reminded people that he was not actually a farmer.
At DGM HQ, David is compiling a CD in connection with a Chalke Valley musical project; and bringing me up to speed on the latest arisings with EMI.
David sets off into the wet evening…
The very bright spots are raindrops, not orbs. The orbs are orbs.
On the Guestbook…
The Story of the Guitar Posted by DrDick on October 23, 2008
Don’t know if anyone else has been watching this but for the last 3 weeks I’ve watched a 3 part BBC documentary on the history of the guitar - quite interesting, although it would have been more fascinating had they included Robert, NST and Guitarcraft.
When the programme was in the planning stage, I was contacted to see if I would introduce it. After the initial enquiry, I heard no more.
24.23 Late e-mails requiring consideration.
"Listening is how we eat music.
Hearing is how we digest it."
