Re: Ballentine's demise for now

[Grant Burgess <grantburgess2001@xxxxxxxx>]

Well I feel that this situation where Chris recieved a
cease and desist order was a bit crazy. Perhap's
Robert and Jimmy's management company would not like
it if they recieved a cease and desist order. It could
be argued that Chris is being harrassed by the record
company's lawyers who are claiming to represent Robert
and Jimmy.

One of the golden rules in representing a client is
that you know your client that you are representing.
In our case, Jimmy Page has shown a tolerance towards
fans who collect live material. It can be argued that
Atlantic records are not acting in a manner in which
their clients Jimmy Page and Robert Plant would wish.
If Robert and Jimmy don't give a **** about fans
trading tapes, the record company has no just cause to
harrass people who take part in that practise.

On a more practical sense, the FBI would be the legal
authority to look after the copywright infringement
issues and one would think the FBI have more important
things to deal with than a few fans trading tapes.

A few things that may be a bit wise to do in the mean
time:

1) take off any links to websites of people selling
bootlegs

2) posts that say you are selling off titles from your
collection

3) doing any tape trees that involve "material from
the vaults" such as soundboard tapes, pro-shot videos,
rehearsal tapes, etc. Remember those are the tapes
Jimmy has an issue with.

4) posting tape trees on a website. Why give a paper
trail for the recording industry people to follow?
Just email everyone the tree structure.

I think we can come up with dozens of examples on
Robert and Jimmy being tolerant of fans collecting
live concerts, so a case can be argued of consent
being a defense