[Dixielandjazz] George Buck

[Richard Broadie]

I know George Buck and through a third party, did some business where
George's main concern was about collecting names of musician and/or their
relatives so that proper royalties could be paid.  He's truly a great man
living in a rip-off world.

My name is associated with AVID Records near London because of some
remastering I did for them years ago.  In the UK, performances  become
public domain after 50 years.  How ever, due to different performace rights
laws in the US, you can be arrested, fined and jailed by selling the same
CDs in the US that are perfectly legal to sell in Europe.

I know.  I almost got sent to jail just for trying to sell a handful of my
own AVID CDs on the internet.

I won't quote the RIAA's response to my website.  Sufficient it to say, they
threatened to have the FBI raid my home and much more.  For those of you who
wondered what ever happened to my Mono to Stereo invention -  after 4 years
of litigation, I no longer had sufficient funds to operate the corporation.
Everybody made money on my inventions except me.  The Enron model, in
reverse.  Having cleaned up my act these days, all I can do is scream "OH
HECK!!!" and that doesn't feel good or sufficient at all!


Dick Broadie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Beebe" <jbeebe at centurytel.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] George Buck


<< if you think for one minute that some copyright
owner will be looking or ever hear of the CDs being offered by Bud then my
friend
you are sadly mis informed >>

Sorry Tom, In this case you may be wrong. The copyright of all the Jazzology
LPs are owned by George Buck and he gets very shirty if someone rips off his
material particularly as he has issued on CD at least one of the LPs that
Bud
has copied and it makes me mad when people rip off the independant companies
like GHB who at least try to make these recordings available to the
collectors
and operate on a rather fine shoe string.

I must concur here with Jerry. Ripping off George Buck is out of bounds.  He
is one of the good guys.  George is a true patron of the Arts and has kept
Jazzology alive without making a dime from it.  He has a mission and he
believes in it.

I  talked with George a few years ago when he had just returned from Europe.
He was totally disheartened.  He had been bothered for years in not being
able to sell much in Europe.  He finally got over there and discovered that
much of what was being sold was pirated.  I believe that he came close to
discontinuing his recording activity.

We must support George Buck and others.

Jim Beebe
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