not to draw out this thread, but, yes, my experience leads me to question
an entity that says, "we are unfeasably scrupilously fair with royalty
payments". this is a simple question of dollars and cents: you sell so
many albums, u get so much in royalties...not someone's perception of
what "fair" may be...what is fair may not be correct... i apologize to
the representative of warp if i appeared to be questioning his personal
integrity...i do not...but i do question the integrity of the company he
represents...obviously, if they were scrupilous with their royalty
payments, the artist in question would not have complained...lets
get back to tunes...
np: floyd - money
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:31:55 -0500 Adam J Weitzman
<weitzman@individual.com> writes:
quoted 64 lines tweibrecht@juno.com wrote:
>tweibrecht@juno.com wrote:
>>
>> time out here...i never questioned anyONE's honesty or integrity,
>nor
>> did i say anything related to trust.
>
>When you say to someone, "I hope you can prove what you're saying," in
>front of a group, then you're calling their integrity into question.
>If
>he couldn't prove it, he wouldn't say it, or he's a liar. Whether you
>meant to or not, it certainly reads like you did.
>
>> assuming its a standard contract, any party can
>> request an independent audit of the financial arrangements
>> involved...if party b states that they are "...unfeasably
>scrupilously
>> fair with royalties..." , then they should be able to prove it to
>party
>> a...not to this list or anyone else
>
>If that's the case, then why did you even bring it up on IDM? If Ken
>can just say "show me the books," then why doesn't he just do so and
>get
>it over with? (And why didn't you just counsel him to do so in
>private?) You have to admit that it seemed like you were asking Greg
>to
>prove to the list that Warp is a fair company, because what you're
>explaining here is that you were asking him (in front of the list) on
>Ken's behalf to prove it to Ken, which is very hard to read from what
>you wrote.
>
>> and i think it is of greater significance than
>> whether or not i paid u the $ 5.00 i owed u
>
>To Ken, maybe, but not to you or me.
>
>> my interest in this issue began with the word "fair"
>
>What is the difference between asking publicly, "Can Warp prove that
>it
>is a fair company?" and "Can Tom prove that he is a fair CD buyer?"
>I'm
>missing it...
>
>> and as i said, experience proves that the artist gets screwed...
>
>So you tend to believe the artist in these disputes, which is fine;
>that's your prerogative.
>
>If you never meant to call Greg's integrity into question, then my
>whole
>second post to Chris and you is moot. But then I have to take issue
>with the language and method you used, as it certainly led me to
>believe
>that that was, in fact, what you were doing. Surely you can see how I
>came to my conclusion.
>
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