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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Record industry defends practices to Senate
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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:01:08 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85513221
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Date: Not supplied
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The Joint Hearing of the Senate Committee and Senate Select Committee on the
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Entertainment Industry is underway in LA, investigating artists' claims that
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the labels engage in unfair and corrupt business-practices. The first day's
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findings at the hearings are really quite remarkable:
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By contract, artists are prohibited from showing royalty statements to
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third parties. Normally this would not include their mangers, lawyers,
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consultants, or others who could aid them in getting paid, but apparently
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this is not necessarily the case. Senator Kevin Murray, leading the
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initiative for artists' rights, claimed the that Cary Sherman, Chief
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Counsel for the RIAA himself, said to him in an interview, that RIAA
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members (the major labels) would sue any artist that broke ranks and shared
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information with the Committee. This claim was rejected by Sherman but
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supported by others in the room. Don Henley, among them, outwardly dared
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his record company to sue him for bringing royalty statements to the
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hearing. He presented his most recent royalty statement for "Hell Freezes
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Over," which showed the panel that even though his contract called for a no
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more than a 10% "reserve" on sales of records shipped, Universal Music had
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held back more than that for eleven pay periods (roughly under three years)
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and that, even though his contract calls for no free goods in Europe, they
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had deducted $87,000 in free goods charges to Europe.
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Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Paul!_)
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[1] http://www.musicdish.com/mag/?id=6675
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[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/jU9jRkFhUcp
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