And what about music publishers who become rights holder of songs after promising the songwriter that they will promote the songs so as to share the royalties but somehow never gets the songs recorded or to generate income for the songwriter. In the US alone there are probably 100 million songs in this category. Never recorded, never made any money for the songwriter, but owned by the publisher who got the songs by promising earnings to the songwriter.

But songwriters never sue, or get their songs back, because the legal system works only for the wealthy, with acess to lawyeres. Carly Simon is wealthy.

It’s a sad reality when no one will take responsability for their own failures, but instead blame and sue people they have HIRED to do a job, that was doomed to failure in the first place!

There was an indepth article on this topic last week in the NY Times. Simon claims she is flat broke (despite being the daughter of a billionaire) and this Starbucks album was supposed to pay for her retirement. She has another album coming out this month, but decided to take the safe route and put out a rehashed ‘greatest hits’ album instead of new material. (good legal strategy; putting out another flop would make it hard to pin blame on Starbucks)

It’s worth noting that Hear Music, Starbucks former inhouse record label, is a member of the RIAA cartel.

What vomit.