Dubmart wrote:As the rights to "Promised Land" are owned by Aswad you are ripping the artists off by buying a bootleg, buying bootlegs also makes a legitimate release from master tapes, with unreleased material and the artists getting paid a lot less likely, plenty of licensed reissues have been scrapped because of bootlegs.
OK, so someone goes on line and buys a 2nd hand copy of the "Love and Hate" album or CD which contains the 12" version of "Promised Land". No royalties to be had there either but it happens all the time and that is an accepted done thing but owning a bootleg isn`t?
Its double standards manipulated to suit each and everyones needs.
There is absolutely no comparison between the resell of a product for which the rights holders have been recompensed and a thief selling a shoddy CDR that has cost 10 pence to make and pocketing all the money for himself, bootleggers are scum. If you want to see proper high quality reissues then don't buy bootlegs, as I said bootlegging on CD and vinyl has stopped plenty of things getting a proper reissue and artists/producers/song writers getting paid.
When talking about CD`s, vinyl albums and singles a royalty payment will only ever be made on the initial sale of the product. Reselling a 2nd hand CD or album does not generate another royalty payment and only ever puts money into the hands of the seller.
I ask you this, have you ever made a profit on selling an LP or CD and think to yourself I should give a percentage back to the performers? I think we both know the answer to that.
Anyway, I don`t agree that bootlegs have stopped decent reissues entering the marketplace. Explain how as I would like to know. What has prevented many reissues are disputes over who actually owns the rights to the music in the first instance and licensing problems that seem to always surface. (Hot Milk attempting to release Eek A Mouse "Bubble Up Ya Hip" is a recent example).
The Jamaican music industry created all its own problems way back in the day with unscrupulous business activities where record producers were only interested in lining there own pockets by any means necessary and the singers and musicians were just a tool to achieve this goal. They created this intangible web where its near impossible to fathom out ownership rights.
In this environment it would cost any record company wishing to reissue rare Jamaican music a fortune in just tracking down where the rights lie and that's before they have even began negotiations to release the music. This is money the majority of record companies are not prepared to pay. Its too expensive, too time consuming and too problematic.
This is why you don`t see too many genuinely great reissues, its just too much hassle for minimal or no profit. It is also why you keep seeing the same old songs being recycled on new releases on a regular basis.
Now don`t get me wrong as I am also very much against bootleg CD`s. where they have been blatantly made and circulated purely to make a profit. I personally would in most circumstances choose to buy a legitimate release over a bootleg.
However, with the Cornfed CD`s as I mentioned before the music was all sourced from private collectors and the CD`s sold to a select group of people on the understanding they were not to be resold as no profit was ever intended to be made from the release of these CD`s.
dubmart is right to say that bootleggers are scum.
they dont have any rights on the tracks they press
rootsman you are correct aswell saying that it is not illegal to sell second hand cd or vinyl... because they are ligit
the person who wants to repress music however need to buy the rights on the music
its in fct already mentioned on each vinyl:
"all rights of the owner of this recorded work reserved. Unauthorised copying prohibited"
its a legal thing
bootlegging is a different subject
its f.e. downloading music from youtube, putting them on cd and start selling them to the general public
only the guy who sells takes all the profits and the artists, producer and so on get nothing
