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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Robbs...licensing info |
| Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:59:09 -0500 |
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At 09:28 AM 6/25/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>The main reason they can't do bonus trax is that many of the majors have
>policies regarding licensing their recordings to third parties where
>agreement is set up to *only* include what was on the original release.
>
>These are done to streamline, I believe, their legal work and make the
>application for many potential licensors easily applied to any of the indie
>labels they work with in licensing their lingering music assets.
My guess why the big boys do this is if a indie re-releases an album and it
sells well and gets rave reviews - that major can come out with a "deluxe
package" with the bonus goodies and recieve thier share of the glory.
>Not Lame will be doing, increasingly, some catalog reissues w/ WEA and
>others in the coming years and almost all them will be like this----without
>bonus trax. But they will have great booklets and liners and sound great.
I hope you have access to the Sire catalog - I would love to see the Beckies
and Pailey Brothers reissued.
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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