gg2g4ink@sprynet.com writes:
quoted 4 lines But it is not NovaMute's album, and they deserve to see absolutely no profit> But it is not NovaMute's album, and they deserve to see absolutely no profit
> from it. without getting into too much detail or being too political, you should
> be aware that NovaMute stole Slater away from GPR without GPR's consent - and
> after Wayne (Mr. GPR) had already paid Slater a #12,000 advance for the album!
i've read all the messages in this thread, and the bottom line is,
none of us have any way of knowing what the real truth is in this
situation. until someone has actually read the contracts that slater
signed, there is just no way of telling. he could well be free to
record for whoever he wants. he may well be entitled to keep the
12000 quid and still sell the record to someone else. unless gil has
an actual copy of a signed slater contract, he is just guessing, like
the rest of us.
dirty tricks/sleazy politics in the record business? no way!
(after getting fucked a few times, i now make sure that all my
contracts have time bombs: if the label doesn't release the licensed
material within a certain amount of time i get all the rights back and
i get to keep the money. sometimes they won't go for the money clause
but at least i get the rights to the material. in the end, that's
worth more to me.)
the music business is all about business, and only tangentially about
music. oh yeah.
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