On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:15:44 -0500 Adam J Weitzman
<weitzman@individual.com> writes:
quoted 31 lines tweibrecht@juno.com wrote:>tweibrecht@juno.com wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:13:57 GMT greg@warp-net.com (g.) writes:
>> >>i hope this statement can be verified by an independent audit.....
>> >of course. but what has it got to do with you? :)
>> because:
>>
>> 1.) u were the one that made the public pronouncement
>> 2.) ive represented enough artists that have gotten screwed outta
>> royalties due to "shoddy" accounting practices perpetrated by
>> record labels...
>
>I beg to differ here.
>
>Warp is accountable to no one except Ken in this matter. Neither you
>nor I are in such a position. While I'd prefer that Warp and Ken work
>this out in private, just because the argument surfaced here doesn't
>mean that we have any more of a right to confirmation of how well one
>person's versions of the "facts" match up against the other, than we
>have with any other argument on this list.
>
>In my mind, all that's happening is that two people I respect are
>having
>a public disagreement. I have no basis for determining who is more
>right, and I suspect that they both are to some degree. If Ken
>continues to feel like he's been screwed, I'm sure he'll say so. If
>Greg continues to feel indignant that Warp has been wrongly slagged,
>I'm
>sure he'll say so too. But to suggest that the members of this list
>"deserve" anything more than that is rather self-righteous, IMHO.
>
>--
though i tend to agree with everything u say, the fact that it was
brought into the public forum makes it, imo, fair game...the "facts", as
presented, are classic "he said, she said"... the label, in this case,
said that they would pay royalties....my initial question was whether or
not these can independently audited...the answer was yes, but this was
none of my business...fine...but as someone who has experience in this
realm, i can tell you that is rarely the case...audit practices at
record labels are poor at best...that is not to say that in this case
they may be perfectly acceptable...i personally have no interest in this
particular case, but feel obligated to state that in most of these
disputes, the artist is the one who gets screwed...sorry to take your
time...
tom w