Uncollected Sound Exchange Royalties

[Lazaro Vega]

Begin forwarded message:

Hi all -

Thought you might be able to help pass the word along about uncollected

royalties held by soundexchange. A brief glance over the massive list shows

that Al Hibbler, Benny Carter, Eliane Elias, Jimmy Giuffre, Joanne Brackeen,

Joe Lovano, Lee Morgan, Lennie Tristano, and Ornette Coleman all have money

being held in their names. It's free to apply to be a member and details

are here: http://www.soundexchange.com/members/become_member.html

Musicians on the list have until Dec 15 to collect their money.

All the best,

Jean Cook

Future of Music Coalition

www.futureofmusic.org

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SoundExchange, the organization charged with administering royalties from

digital transmissions, has released a list of artists and labels for whom

they have unpaid royalties. The link below takes you to a list containing

the names of all reported sound recording copyright owners who stand to lose

those royalties collected from between February 1, 1996 and March 31, 2000,

if they do not register with SoundExchange by December 15, 2006. If you are

or know any musicians and/or copyright holders, please pass the news along.

Unpaid Artist List: http://63.236.111.137/jsp/artist_unpaid_intro.jsp

Unpaid Label List: http://63.236.111.137/jsp/label_unpaid_intro.jsp

[Jazzmoose]

I contacted Lee; he said keep it...

[Hoppy T. Frog]

I contacted Lee; he said keep it...

Interesting, it seems that it is for digital music sales bewteen 1996 and 2000--there couldn't have been much money collected legally during those wild n' wooly days. In the last year or two I have purchased many albums by living artists through legal dowloads, figuring that they will get their hard-earned royalties from the transaction. It would chagrin me if Jimmy Giuffre or anyone else loses out on his or her hard-earned money.

Edited September 28, 2006 by Hoppy T. Frog