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Originally Posted by DrNefario
Whose interests don't necessarily coincide with hers, and who seem to have stopped making any new CDs, suggesting that the landscape has changed.
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Quite true, although I don't know about the not making new CDs part.
We also have an author who was quite (legitimately) concerned about freebie-ebooks and their impact on future sales rights. And whose evident concerns were so deeply felt that she apparently never inquired about how things went with the previous CDs.
Someone, somewhere convinced her to get on the CD bandwagon.
The
second paragraph on the CD's landing page reads: '
What’s the catch? This disk and its contents may be copied and shared, but NOT sold. All commercial rights are reserved. That’s it.'
[As a side note, I noticed that while the more recent Ringo / Weber / Flint CDs do not seem to include that admonition on their landing / orientation pages (but they did have it on their labels),
hers did.]
That should have raised all sorts of red flags to someone with any concerns.
Any lawyer / agent should have been all over that like a bad suit.
She should have been all over it like wet on rain. (I couldn't lump her in with the lawyers.)
Did she see the CD prior to release? Who knows. Someone with any doubts really ought to have insisted as much.
She also seems to be of the opinion that 'copy and share, but not sell' means that three copies is quite enough - you can all stop now!
That implies a level of naivete that borders on outright silly.
What we
appear to have here is a massive attack of incompetence and / or stupidity on either her part or her agent's.
Neither of them inquired about what happened with the previous dozen and a half CDs?