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I've been cc-ed in this reponse to the UR vs Sony case - looks like the big boys have decided to keep face and back down on the issue! BABY DIDDY

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Mike & Rolando, unfortunately you were not able to get back to me personally. Some direct words from you to us could have avoided a lot of misunderstandings, wrong suspicions and excitement causing damage to both sides. Obviously you think, that it is our aim to make UR customers buy Sony records. Kind of paradoxical. We don?t share your point of view that a cover version of Jaguar makes you sell less records. The people interested in your original vinyl are way different to Sony buyers. People who have bought UR records will still buy UR records. In the past days we have received a lot of feedback from the underground to our cover. Apart from some people just abusing Sony Music with 4-letter words, many people express their feelings in a detailed and reasonable style. We understand that you generally disagree with the whole major company business. In this case Sony can be reproached for picking up someone elses idea for profit reasons without taking care of the attitude of the inventor. We realize, that even that we are save on the legal side and the reactions from the ?overground? to our version are euphoric, its commercial release would cause a damage to the relationship of the industry to the underground that could not be compensated. We see ourselves as a company supporting and benefitting from inventive artists. Instead of trying to benefit from the huge buzz that has been created, we have decided to respect your attitude and declare that we will not work any further on the Jaguar cover. Sony Music will not commercially release the track rather on CD maxi or compilations. We are quite sure, that a different company will use the idea and milk the cashcow. We are sorry that we have hurt your feelings. Finally at least the UR record will benefit from the story. We wish you good luck and a lot of sales for this classic piece of music. Regards Dirk Dreyer A&R Manager Sony Music Dance Divsion << --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

They could have by putting it out as planned! Its nice to know you can make a difference! BABY DIDDY ----- Original Message ----- From: david turgeon <eerie@mnemonic.net> To: DAVID HAMPSON <david.hampson@babydiddy.force9.co.uk> Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 4:35 AM Subject: Re: (idm) Sony back down

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> > We are sorry that we have hurt your feelings. Finally at least the

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> > record > > will benefit from the story. We wish you good luck and a lot of sales

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> > this > > classic piece of music. > > i wonder if they could have been anymore condescending. > > ~ david >

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