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Canada’s biggest record label, publisher and management company is helping out a family sued by the Recording Industry Ass. Of America for copyright infringement.The privately-owned Nettwerk Music Group is intervening, it says, because the songs downloaded and identified by the RIAA by the Gruebel family include Avril Lavigne, a Nettwerk management client. Nettwerk will fund the Gruebel’s defense.
the register
Terry McBride has long been the smartest music manager/label guy in Canada. Now he is going for the continental title. What is brilliant about this is that Avril Lavigne is a huge star and, while the record company which releases her work in the States (and I am assuming it is not Nettwerk) may support the RIAA her management doesn’t.
This is the proverbial sharp stick in the eye for the RIAA because when a guy as wired as McBride says, “”Litigation is not ‘artist development’. Litigation is a deterrent to creativity and passion and it is hurting the business I love”. the register Even the dimmest bulb in the record biz will have no choice but to sit up and pay attention.
Good work Nettwerk
Written by jay on January 27th, 2006 with
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