Eric Clapton sued a woman who listed a bootleg CD on eBay for $11. She now owes thousands.

[basquebromance]

Eric Clapton wins legal case against woman selling bootleg CD on eBay

Eric Clapton has won a legal case against a German woman who attempted to sell a bootleg CD of his on eBay.

www.nme.com

Any respect I had for him has been wiped out.

 

[Meister]

Eric Clapton wins legal case against woman selling bootleg CD on eBay

Eric Clapton has won a legal case against a German woman who attempted to sell a bootleg CD of his on eBay.

www.nme.com

Any respect I had for him has been wiped out.

Bootlegging is a big problem for the artists.
It's one thing to reproduce a CD for your own listening pleasure, it's
another to reproduce a CD for your own personal profit.

End of story

 

[Oddball]

Bootlegging is a big problem for the artists.
It's one thing to reproduce a CD for your own listening pleasure, it's
another to reproduce a CD for your own personal profit.

End of story

ibid

 

[Indeependent]

Recording artists get truly sucky contracts.

 

[Augustine_]

Eric Clapton wins legal case against woman selling bootleg CD on eBay

Eric Clapton has won a legal case against a German woman who attempted to sell a bootleg CD of his on eBay.

www.nme.com

Any respect I had for him has been wiped out.

Money always wins

 

[MinTrut]

Eric Clapton wins legal case against woman selling bootleg CD on eBay

Eric Clapton has won a legal case against a German woman who attempted to sell a bootleg CD of his on eBay.

www.nme.com

Any respect I had for him has been wiped out.

The rich and powerful beating up on the powerless, & the courts rubber stamping it - what's not to love?

 

[Oddball]

Recording artists get truly sucky contracts.

Yes they do...That's why guys like Zappa and Prince did what they did.

 

[Indeependent]

Yes they do...That's why guys like Zappa and Prince did what they did.

Heck, after the Beatles 1963 contract sort of expired, JL only wrote when PM wrote.
Brian Epstein, EMI and their publisher took 90% of whatever they were earning.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Bootlegging is a big problem for the artists.
It's one thing to reproduce a CD for your own listening pleasure, it's
another to reproduce a CD for your own personal profit.

End of story

Um, she didn't "reproduce it for profit."

Did you even fucking read the link?

Her now dead husband bought the CD in 1987 from a department store. She was just selling a bunch of stuff he had. I feel she has the right to appeal this and already has. On several points:

1. She didn't purchase the CD. Claptons beef is with a man who is now dead.
2. She didn't know it was bootleg. Since she didn't buy it she had no way of knowing.
3. She made no effort to copy it and sell it for profit. A true copyright violation is someone who MAKES COPIES and sells them.
4. She was selling it for very little money, so obviously not trying to make some huge profit off of it.

Clapton should be entitled to no more than the money she made off the sale of the CD, if any.

An interesting article from the Chicago Tribune dated way back to 1986.

BOOTLEGS: SOUND MAY VARY, BUT ILLEGALITY IS CLEAR

In a 1978 concert, Bruce Springsteen dedicated the song ”Racing in the Streets” to his friends in Asbury Park, N.J. Because the concert was in San Francisco, Springsteen acknowledged th…

www.chicagotribune.com

 

[DudleySmith]

It's a sleazy business on both sides of the deals; musicians aren't any more honest than the companies for the most part. They think everybody else ought to pander to them and work for them for free, take lots of money up front and then can't show up for concerts are show up and play slop, or are frankly one hit wonders with little real talent and big egoes. Bands that treat others with respect. show up and give the ticket buyers their money's worth, don't screw over everybody around them can last a long time and have great careers. Most bands fade away quick, deservedly so. For companies, they have to pay for a lot of bands that don;t particularly sell well but are decent and outstanding artists, and they have to use their big acts to be able to carry maybe five other artists or more, and for most bands it's their managers and producers who groomed them and made them big in the first place.