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Bredonborough.
Morning reading and onto disputation and dissension of the ongoing UMG kind. As of our discoveries in the UMG royalty statement yesterday, the violations and infringements are not only historic, but continuing. The send button has been hit…
dear Mr. UMG Outside Lawyer Man,
with reference to my reading yesterday of the latest UMG royalty statement, in respect of ongoing downloads and stock-dumping, would you care to revise your comments, as of your e-letter to declan of 6 september 2011...
it does not mean that my client has acted in bad faith, nor that it has not made "meaningful efforts" to reach a settlement.
if you do feel that your statement continues to be accurate, i would be grateful to know on what basis you might:
1. assert that your clients are acting in good faith;
2. and explain how their efforts can be meaningful without addressing any of our detailed concerns.
seemingly, the leitmotif in society is a failure of those in positions of responsibility to meet duties of care to those who look to them for just and fair behaviour. simply, Power Possessors are increasingly seen as acting to serve their own limited self-interest, rather than to honour their roles, perhaps even to consider themselves as somehow unaccountable for their actions.
... but on each occasion my client has responded, accepting its mistakes...
really! i anticipate your client's response to and acceptance of these new mistakes. your client seems to view settlement as purely a financial matter (and a derisory one at that). my concern is to learn how structural problems, failures in management and corporate incompetence translate into firstly, the historic problems; and, secondly, an obviously ongoing series of mistakes. unless those systemic failures are addressed, we shall be writing to you again, and again. a cheque from your client for 40 hours of my time is no solution. it is also profoundly insulting.
what does your client propose, to introduce new systems of control? if there is a warehouse with King Crimson CDs in mexico, and presumably a warehouse in the US from which the stock originated, where are they? who supervises them? when did the shipments take place? who authorised the shipments? when was the stock pressed? why were these sales beyond the sanctuary sell-off period? who is responsible? what originally may have been a small matter for your client now indicates system-wide failure. more detailed questions for your client to decline to answer?
if you revisit your e-letter of 6 september, and read it in the light of the clearly-revealed current and ongoing violations, rather than purely historic problems, you may conclude it would benefit from re-drafting.
time to own up.
respectfully, rf.
15.05 Lunch for the Minx, who set off for this evening’s Toyah Band gig c. 13.05.
19.19 An afternoon organizing, pre-packing, computerizing and e-flurrying, footing it to the chiropodist, and shoe-polishing. An evening practicing ahead, with WillyFred likely to look on with quizzical regard.
Bredonborough.
Morning reading and onto disputation and dissension of the ongoing UMG kind. As of our discoveries in the UMG royalty statement yesterday, the violations and infringements are not only historic, but continuing. The send button has been hit…
dear Mr. UMG Outside Lawyer Man,
with reference to my reading yesterday of the latest UMG royalty statement, in respect of ongoing downloads and stock-dumping, would you care to revise your comments, as of your e-letter to declan of 6 september 2011...
it does not mean that my client has acted in bad faith, nor that it has not made "meaningful efforts" to reach a settlement.
if you do feel that your statement continues to be accurate, i would be grateful to know on what basis you might:
1. assert that your clients are acting in good faith;
2. and explain how their efforts can be meaningful without addressing any of our detailed concerns.
seemingly, the leitmotif in society is a failure of those in positions of responsibility to meet duties of care to those who look to them for just and fair behaviour. simply, Power Possessors are increasingly seen as acting to serve their own limited self-interest, rather than to honour their roles, perhaps even to consider themselves as somehow unaccountable for their actions.
... but on each occasion my client has responded, accepting its mistakes...
really! i anticipate your client's response to and acceptance of these new mistakes. your client seems to view settlement as purely a financial matter (and a derisory one at that). my concern is to learn how structural problems, failures in management and corporate incompetence translate into firstly, the historic problems; and, secondly, an obviously ongoing series of mistakes. unless those systemic failures are addressed, we shall be writing to you again, and again. a cheque from your client for 40 hours of my time is no solution. it is also profoundly insulting.
what does your client propose, to introduce new systems of control? if there is a warehouse with King Crimson CDs in mexico, and presumably a warehouse in the US from which the stock originated, where are they? who supervises them? when did the shipments take place? who authorised the shipments? when was the stock pressed? why were these sales beyond the sanctuary sell-off period? who is responsible? what originally may have been a small matter for your client now indicates system-wide failure. more detailed questions for your client to decline to answer?
if you revisit your e-letter of 6 september, and read it in the light of the clearly-revealed current and ongoing violations, rather than purely historic problems, you may conclude it would benefit from re-drafting.
time to own up.
respectfully, rf.
15.05 Lunch for the Minx, who set off for this evening’s Toyah Band gig c. 13.05.
19.19 An afternoon organizing, pre-packing, computerizing and e-flurrying, footing it to the chiropodist, and shoe-polishing. An evening practicing ahead, with WillyFred likely to look on with quizzical regard.
