[LINK] SMH: Radiohead and JJJ

[David Higgins]

I think you're over-estimating record company "marketers".  My wife used to
work for one of the big record companies -- their idea of a marketing
meeting was getting together to decide what trinket they would attach to the
CD before sending it off to the radio stations.
Also, why would the labels limit the number of promos they send out (to
prevent pirating) while simultaneously leaking their products out (to
increase pirating)? These are the same record labels who own RIAA -- which
dedicates itself to fighting online piracy.
I might be wrong, but to me it's not believable that EMI would spend
millions recording a band just to give away the songs for free.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
Cheers
David Higgins


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim O'Leary <oleary at alphalink.com.au>
To: link at anu.edu.au <link at anu.edu.au>
Date: Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:29
Subject: RE: [LINK] SMH: Radiohead and JJJ


>At 11:01 AM Thursday 4/3/03 +1000, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
>>Interesting. If JJJ pays the normal royalty for playing a song, I can't
see
>>that it's broken copyright (although of course the pirate who hosted the
>>site had done so).
>>What JJJ has done is stuffed up someone's marketing plan - but that's not
>>illegal is it?
>
>
>I'd suggest that JJJ with its taxpayer funded national reach and yoof
>demograf has just hugely assisted EMI's marketing plan or RADIOHEAD's
>negotiations with EMI - or even more likely - both!
>
>Richard - it seems like you aren't all that familiar with *the music
>industry*? Check out launch / release dates below and tell me it doesn't
>fit in with a well orchestrated campaign for *street cred* and considered
>building a *vibe* about new album from a multimillion $ selling (now)
>establishment group and multinational media industry group EMI.
>
>
>==============
>From: http://www.ateaseweb.com/news/index.php
>
>Radiohead announce LP6 tracklisting & title [24-03-03]
>  Radiohead will release their sixth album  'Hail To The Thief' on
>Parlophone on June 9. This will be preceded by the single 'There There' on
>May 26. 'Hail To The Thief' features 14 tracks and was recorded in
>Oxfordshire and Los Angeles. It was produced by Nigel Godrich and
>Radiohead, and mixed by Nigel Godrich.
>
>===================
>
>EMI on Triple J's album airplay [02-04-03]
>  From: http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2003/20030401_radiohead.html
>
>Songs from the upcoming Radiohead album 'Hail To The Thief' leaked from the
>net yesterday and were splattered across radio in Australia by Triple J.
>The leak took EMI by surprise. Director of Promotions Malcolm Hill told
>Undercover News "It is not something we had anything to do with. It hasn't
>come from the band or the record company. It is theft. It must have been
>stolen".
>
>The entire album leaked online over the weekend.
>
>Arnold Frolows, music director of Triple J says he phoned EMI before
>playing the record. "First thing I did was phone the record company and
>there was enthusiasm to play it" he tells Undercover. "The last time we did
>this was with the new Nirvana single. Something popped up and we played it
>right away. We expected to hear from the record company but they ignored
it".
>
>Even Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood is making also comments. "I read Johnny
>Greenwood from the band saying he was flattered people liked it but that
>this was too early" Hill says.
>
>Downloading of songs from the internet and broadcasting them is a breach of
>copyright and both parties agree. "It is against the broadcasting act PPCA"
>says Hill. "It has a 'cease and desist' on it now because they have the
>copyright" says Frolows. "It is a fine line between finding something and
>playing it. There is an argument that playing it once is letting people
>know what it is like but it is theft. I suggested we would play a few
>tracks and be done with it. It certainly wasn't a bad bit of PR".
>
>Frolows says they won't be playing it again until it is released. Hill says
>EMI won't be taking any action against Triple J but agrees if the
>commercial stations now follow suit it will be a major problem.
>
>As to where the leak came from in the first place Frolows says "it would
>have to be pretty close to the band. I can't imagine the record company
>doing it. It doesn't help them at all. But we don't know what is going on
>between Radiohead and EMI."
>
>As for listener reaction Frolows says there really hasn't been any. "We
>didn't pursue it far enough" he says. "There wasn't major reaction. If we
>kept playing it overnight and again today we would start getting requests".
>
>And his personal evaluation of the album? "The album is fantastic. It is
>what we have been waiting for the last few years. This is the album we
>wanted the last two albums to be" he says
>
>The album 'Hail To The Thief' will be released officially on June 9. The
>single 'There There' will be out late May.
>By Paul Cashmere
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>TIM O'LEARY
>oleary at strategos.com.au
>www.strategos.com.au
>
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