From Drew McDowall Sent Wed, Oct 15th 1997, 00:07
From Drew McDowall Sent Wed, Oct 15th 1997, 00:07
> >If you know Matt at all, some times it can be difficult to tell how >serious he is being. This opens him up to loads of quotes being taken out >of context. Look no further than his 'it's not that we're so brilliant, >it's that everyone else is crap' comment. I havn't actually seen the >interview in question, but I can totally see Matt saying those things to >point out the stupidity that is copyright infringement cases. i can appreciate that,the mix journalist probably didn't realise the implications of what matt was saying. >being able to buy our way out of trouble...Yes we could afford a minor >charge or whatever, however if we were to get sued over the new Coldcut >record we would be quite fucked. We certinatly don't have enough money to >pull 10's of thousands of copies off shelfs and destroy them, not to >mention all the legal fees and potential charges. We have been threatened >with lawsuits before and yes, we have been sued a few times. It sucks. >It's such a shitty issue. Usually the only people that will sue you are >the ones that already have loads of cash and can afford to go through >with it. It can be worked out so much more easily. If someone threatens >to sue you and you are indeed guilty it's usually quite easy to work it >out in a reasonable manner by offering some points on the royalties or >publishing (just go to the source and keep the lawyers out of >it...U2/Island vs. Negativland anyone?). We have actually gone on to work i take your point on all that.unless your a major label you can't really shrug that kind of thing off. what i would like to see is something similar to what exists in book and magazine publishing and that's the idea of fair use or quotation.you credit your sources and everyones happy.it's incredible really that the concept doesn't exist in music. >This is true, however Ninja Tune didn't get this far by being assholes. >If we were ever to do what Matt was implying it would be the end of the >label. If people didn't kill us they would at least stop buying our >records. We are music people first, business second. Even our lawyer is a yeah true,from what i've heard coldcut have had their share of getting shafted by the business(big life?) > >Anyone who makes interesting music is a friend of Ninjas sorry i should have realised that's what you meant. -drew