goes with the territory, I'm afraid.

I can't understand the law. There seems to be a lot of disagreement amongst the people who do understand the law. I've never found any of the organisations who represent musicians and songwriters to be much good in this respect.

I think if i were Nic Jones, I'd start selling the albums as cds and downloads from home - signing them.

If someones lawyers come after you - hide! Anyway what could they do - if you don't register the company, don't put an address on the label. Generally don't cooperate. There must be evasive action - how do pirate video makers operate. Why not pirate yourself. I often wonder what was going on with Alex Campbell who seemed to have work out on a hundred labels at once.

Anyway I talk a good game, but I've got more songs languishing in publishers catalogues than I can remember. Some are small guys who died and stopped answering the phone. Others got taken over by conglomerates and have never heard of me or my songs.

Basically like I say, it goes with the territory - you can't let these people decide what you are going to do. Just take it as read, you're going to get ripped off and exploited and used.

but its better than being useless.