Does this mean that Kraftwerk will be dismissed from EMI? <<<
Probably. EMI hasn't renewed the contracts of several established acts. The most prominent is David Bowie (and the only one I can recall right now). Even though Bowie owns all the copyrights of his work, I think that he's allowed EMI to retain distribution rights of all his work. In the past, his catalog went with him (as in the move from Rykodisc to Virgin/EMI), but his relationship with the company must be decent to allow EMI to continue to manufacture and distribute his albums, up to the last one released through Virgin. KW, however, is a different story. It'll probably be a territory-by-territory decision. EMI released "Expo 2000" in Europe, but the independent distributor that they own in the US, Caroline, home of Astralwerks, licensed the CD-5 from EMI Germany, rather than it going directly to Virgin or Capitol. Astralwerks usually works autonomously from the rest of EMI, even though it's a subsidiary of Virgin, so their US distribution's probably not in any danger. Peace.
muziknut2@juno.com wrote:
Does this mean that Kraftwerk will be dismissed from EMI? <<<
Kraftwerk have a different relation with their record company than most bands. Usually the record company owns the rights to published record, but with Kraftwerk the story is different. Usually there is a copyright(c) sign to the record company and a (p) sign also to the record company. With Kraftwerk all those rights remain with Kraftwerk, at least on the European records there's (p) Kraftwerk, and often (c) Kling Klang. So it seems EMI doesn't do much more than distributing Kraftwerk. I have no idea if this is very worthwile for EMI. EMI in The Netherlands didn't do any promotion for The Mix for example, as a friend who's in the record business told me. I guess this came about when Autobahn became a million seller, while the rights were with the record company, and they made the big money. After a number of years (20?) the rights came back to Kraftwerk from Philips, and Autobahn was re-released by EMI (P) 1974 Kraftwerk. Must be shocking to see your record becoming a big success, and not benefiting from that very much. Rick Jansen -- Web: http://www.euronet.nl/~rja/ email: rja@euronet.nl
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