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08.46  16.39 … and stayed for just over five hours. The hardest part for me was practising guitar in the Cellar while being filmed. Mistakes were made. As they always are, when viddying is engaged. WillyFred was the star of the day I…  II...  We are part of the third programme on Love & Marriage, to be broadcast (we are informed) BBC TV4 on 26th. September. Apparently, we represent 1980s Marriage. Into e-fury mode. From Declan Panegyric to iTunes… It's difficult for me, not knowing Apple's internal systems very well & there being no reason why I should, to predict how the company allocated or identified the material in question. This is what I know: 1) Sanctuary/UMG, part of the world's largest record company, offered material for sale via iTunes, the world's largest music retailer. 2) Sanctuary/UMG, when alerted to this fact, effected the takedown required in the USA only - for reasons never fully explained. 3) The material remained available, even after further complaints to Sanctuary/UMG, until such time as I contacted iTunes directly & demanded a full & complete takedown. 4) Since then, Sanctuary/UMG, despite many efforts by myself, copyright owner Robert Fripp & others, have been unable (or unwilling?) to define precisely how much the world's biggest music retailer sold on behalf of the world's biggest record company of material in which neither company had any rights, material that is copyrighted to the founder member of the band in question, material in which my company is the legitimate licensee. 5) Now, it appears that the world's biggest music retailer is also having difficulty identifying the sales of such material made on behalf of the world's biggest record company. Naturally, I encourage you to keep searching. I would also like you to search for the King Crimson material uploaded by Island/UMG (two tracks Catfood & Groon) again without permission & for which Island/UMG has been unable to supply any further information - other than acceptance that such sales occurred. I also recognise that my company is a small operator compared to giants like iTunes & UMG, though I hope such smallness of operation does not prevent the company from representing or curating the music as professionally as as any of the bigger players. However, the amount of time that is being devoted to these matters risks compromising the representation of the music itself… 19.26 A MinxWalk around the town…  … and shopping. A little attention to the Minx’s computer technology. Now dribbling. Five hours with cameras is almost as hard as it gets for me. To gentle. Search Robert Fripp's diary archive. |
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