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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
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