Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: akarma - pererin

Subject: (fwd) - IMPORTANT WRONGDOING - AKARMA - PERERIN
Dear friends, customers and other people involved is the music
business,
I feel that I have no other option than sending this sad message to
all of you. It is regarding one of the new Akarma releases, the
vinyl of PERERIN "Haul ar yr eira" AK319 which has been just offered
in distribution tonight from the official Akarma distributor. It is
a very sad situation, and I believe that people must know about it.
All PERERIN albums are licensed to us by the owner of the rights,
which is actually one of the artists, Arfon Wyn. The owner of the
rights has also full permission from the owner of the record label
that did put out the lps at the time, Gwerin Sywm, who never sold
the rights of the masters to anyone else, to license these albums.
Three weeks ago, I got knowledge of the fact that Akarma was about
to release this album. Quickly, I got in touch with the Comet
Records (Akarma and other labels) manager, and explained him the
situation, with a very kind offering to find a solution, talking
both in my own name and also Arfon Wyn's name.
The Comet manager, in an obvious recognition of fault, replied my e-
mail saying "what do you proppose to solve this?".
I asked him to stop the production and forget about this, assuming
us all previous costs of mastering etc that could have been already
paid by them. The Comet manager replied saying that the lp was
already manufactured and in stock in their warehouse, and I
requested him to simply sell the whole pressing to us at cost, and
he said that ok but first he wants to see my contract.
I fax the contract to him, where Arfon Wyn declares being the owner
of the rights. He replies saying that someone who claims owning the
master rights licensed the album to them. He only said this when he
saw the contract, never before, it's more than obvious that he has
no contract and he know all tricks.
I said ok let me talk to Arfon about this, but send me your contract
by fax as well so I can know all these details. He said no, I can't
show you my contract, I have to talk with my legal department.
Finally, I told him that Arfon was going to meet with the owner of
the masters, and that I was going to send him a written
authorization of this man to Arfon Wyn to use the master rights.
Ten days have passed, and I've e-mailed Comet a couple of times
saying that the man is about to send me that document and I would
send it to Comet fastly. They never replied me again, and tonight
I've been offered the Akarma Pererin release by the official italian
distributor.
Needless to say how shocked is Arfon Wyn in front of this absolute
lack of respect. So am I. No one was blaming them for releasing this
album without any legal permission, but if someone proves them that
has the rights and is going to release the album, the minimum they
can do is colaborate. They've been offered a solution with no money
loss for them. I'm totally amazed to see how this people act.
I'm sure they're very used to this, they don't care about anything.
In fact, another of their upcoming releases, a CD version of PLASTIC
CLOUD, is exactly the same case than Pererin. Comet has not shown
any contracts of these when they've been requested to it, Guerssen
and the Plastic Cloud owner have done it. The situation is more than
evident and there's no place for doubts.
That's the end of the story. Guerssen as distributor and mailorder
company will definitely not stock any of these releases, and we
decided you all should know about this so you can decide by
yourselves if you want to stock/buy them or not. We will be offering
the CD version of Pererin later this week.
All my best,
Antoni Gorgues - Guerssen Records

un amico wrote:
|| I feel that I have no other option than sending this sad message to
|| all of you. It is regarding one of the new Akarma releases, the
|| vinyl of PERERIN "Haul ar yr eira" AK319 which has been just offered
|| in distribution tonight from the official Akarma distributor. It is
|| a very sad situation, and I believe that people must know about it.
Avevo già letto questa cosa.
Sconcertante modo di lavorare, è uno dei (vari) motivi per cui vorrei
perdere di vista sempre di più questa label.
bye
s