Surprise, surprise! It's the music industry major labels themselves.Warner Music, Sony BMG Music, EMI Music and Universal Music have, since the 1980s, been releasing tracks from musicians who were not signed to their labels. The companies put them on a 'pending list'. That is, the payments to the artists concerned are 'pending'.
So, for the last 30 years, the majors have been profiting from tracks they had no legal right to release or distribute.
Here's the full story.
2 comments:
We were going to pay them, one day, but we, erm, haven't yet.
Great defence.
Good find H
Bah slave havent you learned your place already! We are a huge corporation we can ride roughshot over copyright, patents and mundane laws thats why we buy the politicians and lots of expensive lawyers so even if the little man takes umbridge at us riding roughshot over there copyright or patent we can intimidate him with our team 50+ lawyers inflating our legal bills.
You on the other hand will work harder and for less and be damn happy about it too!
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