Because of my work, I deal with a lot of music contracts on a regular basis, and if Peacefrog has a typical contract with Joe Lewis, Peacefrog would have covered their butt in this situation: Lewis would have had to affirm in signing a contract with Peacefrog that he owned the work being released on Peacefrog. So in this case, if Lewis had indeed submitted songs to Peacefrog (now released) that he did not own the copyright to, Lewis would be breaching Peacefrog's contract and furthermore Read could sue Lewis for copyright infringement. Read wouldn't have any truck with Peacefrog in this situation because Peacefrog didn't intentionally infringe Read's copyright. As has been said, if Lewis signed a contract with Peacefrog saying that the songs were indeed his (Lewis'), Peacefrog would have no reason to doubt him. My CDN .02. Andrew "not a lawyer, so don't quote me on this" Duke
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