Steve. I NEVER, EVER said I was on the side of "legal-technical". I do think that fairness-humanity is the right way for all of us to live our lives.   However, we live in a world where we have to deal with "legal-technical" and it impossible to fight that with ONLY good intentions.

"Complications" are NOT only in the eye of a "biased" beholder, and while I admire your steadfast dedication to seeing the right thing done, you will never accomplish that until you learn how to educate and speak with those who either have different views or less access to the story.

The behavior that you and Diane have shown to us bears little resemblance to anyone who professes to have "fairness-humanity" as their mantra. The name calling and insinuation is not something that I would expect from someone in the folk community here in the U.S.

Steve, the issue that you raise - about someone sitting on their works and not allowing the artist to earn from it is not new. If you look at contracts that performers signed for movies and television in the early days, they also signed away their rights and did not earn a penny when their work was shown in syndicated reruns and now on DVD's. (Plus there is the issue of public domain, which may be different in the UK. "Intellectual property" becomes public domain after a period of time.) Many of these actors signed away their "intellectual property", and if you ever come to New Jersey I will be glad to take you the Actors Home in Englewood and let you meet some of the people who lost out.

The idea should be to change the future. Prevent Bulmers from every again screwing an artist. It is a shame about what happened, and I think people should be made aware.   Is he releasing recordings? Is there a boycott? How is it publicized?

I am just curious to know - has Bulmer released ANY of these recordings to artists? If so, at what price? Has he made offers? What is his relationship with Dick Gaughin?

All of this is a sidetrack to the original topic, but I guess there is a relationship.