Many of we Irish living involuntarily in exile in the USA laughed long and hard at the latest scam – the appointment of the other gay Byrne as cultural ambassador (since the original one is after all doing the roads);
Byrne's appointment
This Irish government has for over a decade sustained an offensive targeting any creative artists who queered the pitch of their beloved westlife, cecilia ahern etc. Clearly, the money has run out – from having one of ahern's garbage productions on primetime network TV, they are now realistically looking at whether they can stream video from 300-seater venues in the USA
When they were still virtuous and pure, mar dhea, the “Greens” asked many questions about nefarious activities in the music biz from which FF were benefitting mightily. It involved also Enterprise Ireland; briefly, what was happening was that artists would be “signed” by Ffers, their copyrights stolen with collusion from Ffers at IMRO, and trade fairs like Midem (where the Irish stand was controlled by FF's Shay Hennessy) would be used to export millions of units The artits never got paid
We got the cops involved, and IMRO is now a much cleaner body. A federal court case is in the offing for recovery of royalties
That case, again
and the judge ordered a mediation meeting after an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss by Valley, who responded with another motion to dismiss which is to be heard, appropriately, on April Fools' Day, 2010
Details are on bottom of http://seanonuallain.com/id2.html
in what is admittedly a long narrative, appended. The “greens” need to go before they allow and indeed assist FF in destroying this part of our heritage as well
Valley entertainment has recently in 2009 been sued by an independent Irish singer-songwriter Melanie O'Reilly for copyright violation. To date Valley has paid all royalties due to Ms O'Reilly to an individual with no legitimate claim on Ms O'Reilly's material, and having agreed through its lawyers in 2000 not to do so. Furthermore, it has continued to do so having been furnished with documentation that the "company" it got the license from in 1998 is not a valid business entity in Ireland or anywhere
Valley continues to steal from Irish musicians, and its bravado in "standing up" to ex-President Bush has to be seen for the fraud that it is. Its own website (checked 3/9/10) confirms that "Seven labels collaborated for the original release of Celtic Woman by Ireland's Excellent Music"
In that, it shares a dubious distinction with Quebec's St Clair (now owned by the private investment firm Pouschine Cook Capital Management, LLC) However, Excellent music was struck off the Irish register of companies in 2000 - and again, in the case of Valley, Ms O'Reilly's putative license came from another source. Both Valley and St Clair can look forward to many years of lawsuits from Irish musicians, having their misdeeds exposed, and boycotts of their products - the boycott is after all an Irish invention.
What is stunning about this is the gall of this Irish government in attempting to domesticate artists, having victimized them for so long. The truth of the matter is that the colonial effort which involved also traducing the universities and the native science enterprise itself in the manner described in the companion blog has now run aground due to lack of funds. Now, having funded garbage like “Celtic thunder “ in the USA (omnipresent on public TV at one stage; the screams of protest still reverberate), they are trying to move up the value chain.
PS 5u aibrean 2010; We won both parts of the case, with St Clair having a default judgement lodged against them, and Valley agreeing a financial settlement, with our tracks taken off their album
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
