The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #15221   Message #135341
Posted By: A Publisher
12-Nov-99 - 10:40 PM
Thread Name: Serious BS: HFA/NMPA Round 2 part II
Subject: RE: Serious BS: HFA/NMPA Round 2 part II
Sorry - I of course, meant Chet in that last post.

A sidebar regarding 2Live Crew. That was an extremely controversial decision, even among the courts. In 99% of the courts in this country, fair use is notoriously difficult to prove.

Also, to those musicians here who have been burned by record companies: I carefully opted to work in publishing and NOT in a record label because of the business practices I saw going on in labels. Publishers and labels do not always get along well. Think about this: HFA is the publishers' appointed "bad guy" to go after the labels for not paying us our royalties (and thus the writer and artist theirs) as well!