The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51839 Message #1125389
Posted By: dick greenhaus
27-Feb-04 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Celtic Music Dave Bulmer (4)
Subject: RE: Celtic Music Dave Bulmer (4)
A Plea for Some Sort of Clarification
As I (perhaps poorly) understand it, Celtic Music has done three bad things"
A. They sat on some titles (notably Nic Jones) and refused to release them, doing financial harm to the artists.
B. They (allegedly) have not paid royalties to the artists on thr few CDs they have released.
C. They have released CD-Rs without notifying anyone that they're nor properly pressed CDs.
Could someone tell me if I'm reading this correctly? The reason I ask is that CM has recently released a small flood of excellent previously-unavailable CDs, and I'd like to make this very fine music available to my customers. Objection "A" clearly doen't apply here. As far as "B" is concerned, I'd be grateful if any artists whose work has been released would let me know if they are receiving royalties; if they're not, I can probably make some arrangement where I'll pay the royalties to them directly. As for "C" it is as it is; I'll make no secret about whether they're CD-R's or not, but I'd like to point out that any CDs (or CD-Rs) I sell come with a lifetime (probably mine) warranty.
I'd really like to help make this music available. What think you?