Thanks again Guest for your observations. One question though: when you say that the artists' rights go to the new owner and not the artist, does that mean that all royalties fall to the new owner and that Bulmer is thus under no legal obligation to pay royalties (or any other payment)? If that is the case then it would indeed seem difficult to get anywhere on this front, although surely there is some recourse over the issue of CDRs, or could this also be interpreted as falling within the law? Is the answer (for new artists) to ensure that any contract stipulates that all rights return to them if the catalogue is sold on? Is it possible to exert sufficient sway with a record company to get such a contract drawn up?

Cheers