Hi everybody I became yesterday an fucking answer from BMG!
You can also check the Jaguar-Cover release on the BMG Homepage: http://www.backpage.de/de/news/releases/1/ Respect --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Underground Fighters, > > Thomas M. Stein has asked me to reply to you as > follows: > > We have a third party licencing agreement > regarding "Jaguar" and therefore, we have to release > said material on time. The release is legal in > Germany for the following reason: > > We are releasing a cover version of "Jaguar". The > German copyright act contains special legal > regulations, > ยง 61 UrhG. Regarding cover versions > we have a compulsory mechanical licence which means > that a record company has the right to record cover > versions of a released song provided that the record > company obtains said compulsory mechanical licence > from the German collecting society GEMA and also > pays the applicable statutory rate to GEMA. > > Regarding US repertoire GEMA and the US collecting > society Harry Fox Agency have a mutual agreement > which authorizes GEMA to grant mechanical licences > for the release of cover versions in Germany without > additional permission of the original publisher > and/or author. The original publisher of "Jaguar" > Mad Max Music is a member of Harry Fox Agency and > therefore subject to aforementioned compulsory > licence. Financially this regulation is no > disadvantage for the involved US publishers and > authors: The mechanical royalties paid by BMG to > GEMA are forwarded to Harry Fox Agency and from > there to the original publisher and the authors. > > > Best regards, > > Inge Schneider __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
