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Thread #126218   Message #2804478
Posted By: GUEST,Ralphie
05-Jan-10 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
Subject: RE: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
Zozimus.
You may well have bought downloads of the first 2 Nic Jones LPs from e-music.com (whoever they are).
If they are a reputable company (and I'm sure they are) They would have done a deal with Celtic Music. A certain Mr Bulmer, who owns all the rights to the 4 lost Nic Jones LP's (Oh, and about 150 other titles that are squirelled away somewhere)
You'd have to check with Mollie Music, but, it's highly unlikely that the family have received a brass farthing fom the sale.
I don't know what you paid for them, don't really care, but anything you may have paid will have been split between the download site, and Celtic Music. Not the artist.
All absolutely legal. You have done no wrong, neither has e-music.com, and neither has Celtic music.
Where does that leave the artist, who was critically injured at the height of his fame, nearly 30 years ago, and has been denied many, perhaps tens of thousands of pounds in royalty income in the intervening years?
Legally right...absolutely....Morally.......Well thats up to you, I know where I stand.
Pip.
You can't legitimately get new copies of Noahs Ark and Devil. is all.
You might find second hand vinyl on E Bay, which, is fair enough.
Or Bandoggs, Tony Rose, Pete and Chris Coe, Dick Gaughan, Vin Garbutt, even Mike Harding!

Until the whole sorry saga of Celtic Music is resolved. These lost LPs (along with all the other titles....go to the MusTrad database and search for Leader/Trailer. Pages of the stuff) will remain locked away.

I see no resolution to that problem in the near future. and maybe not in my lifetime. It would be too late for Tony Rose anyway now.