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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Lavigne Litigation begins |
| Date | Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:41:28 -0400 |
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Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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>From: Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Lavigne Litigation begins
>Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:47:55 -0600
>
>Gene Good wrote:
>>I don't know the Rubinoos song in question here. My point is where in the
>>world would she have heard this song.Is she that deep into pop music? I
>>find it difficult to believe she ever heard a Rubinoo tune at all.I'm
>>laughing at the suit,not any quote from her camp.
>
>Why are we all assuming, at face value, that SHE WROTE THE SONG? Her name
>may be on it, but it seems like we established early on that she was a
>product of The Matrix and some other songsmiths.
You are correct. It was co-written with Lukasz "Doctor Luke" Gottwald. It's
anyone's guess as to how that co-write credit is divided in terms of
percentages and/or input by Lavigne.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I could write a song and sell all rights to
>it, including authorship claims, right? I've had talented and well-informed
>industry insiders explain to me that this happens all the time.
Yep. Segarini and I know a very famous songwriting team who penned Roxette's
"The Look" for that band's EMI America debut album. But the wheelers and
dealers behind the scenes wanted Roxette to be perceived as a hitmaking
machine from Sweden (it would play well in the press that they could be the
first significant musical export since ABBA) and so it was decided that the
male half of the duo, Per Gessle, would be the designated songwriter on ALL
the songs. Truth was...the act barely had enough material to complete their
second album (the first in North America) and some outside songs were
solicited. The Canadian husband and wife team responsible for Heart's "What
About Love" submitted "The Look" and were paid a handsome sum to relinquish
all future rights to the tune and a gag order for ten years following the
album's release. Well the ten years expired some time ago and at least one
half of the songwriting team is looking at reclaiming the rights to the
song.
Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye
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