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Recipient of 2007
The Angel Award (Anděl Award, Czech: cena Anděl) is a Czech music award issued by the
Czech Academy of Popular Music.
(The Alan White Band)
est. 2006
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FEBRUARY 13th 2012: OFFICIAL NOTICE: As of today Sony Music nor either party have yet to respond further than their response by letter on January 13th of this year: The Cease & Desist still stands, this matter will not removed until resolution.
Halo released officially in 2008 is a direct music infringement of the 2007 release Standing On The Balcony, in full melody and verse:
OFFICIAL REPLY TO SONY, USA, LONDON,
OFFICIAL RESPONSE DATED: January 16th 2011.
Sir Howard Stringer
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Sony Corporation
Ellen Hochberg, Senior, Business and Legal Affairs, Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment, 550 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022
Michael Smith, SVP, Legal & Business Affairs.
Sony Music UK Limited, 9 Derry Street, London, w8 5HY.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr. District Attorney – One Hogan Place, New York, NY, 10013
Dear Ms Hochberg,
Re: Copyright Infringement: Cease & Desist, Original Composition ‘Standing On The Balcony” V’s ‘Halo’.
Thank you for your correspondence dated, January 11th “Sony Music Found No Substantial Similarity”, “Without Prejudice”
Video Statement:
http://mikecurleymusic.com/files/SONY_STATEMENT_ON_VIDEO.wmv
Sony Music worldwide are currently in breach of International copyright law, rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
Under the terms of that Federal Law it is not the position of Sony Music to question a claim of infringement, but it is your duty under the terms of that law under the constitution of The United States Of America, to answer the questions to the following.
How many of your artists are known to be using "Performance Enhancing Software", that by pure public admittance is being used to "Manipulate" to a success rate of "85%", existing structures of music under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
Your situation in regards to the song "Halo", is fact that, when stripped down to basic structure on notation of chord and melody in whole, under the terms of aforementioned it has infringed the song "Standing On The Balcony", placed into Copyright within the United States Library of Congress prior to 2008 and the release of "Halo".
Subsequently you are selling sheet music, and backing tracks in action of "For Profit", entitled "Halo", without the trappings of the commercially know sound recording.
One again you are instructed to 'Cease and Desist' and return 100% ownership to the rightful claimant. No matter how you as a company view this infringement, persistence will not waiver or go away, and will remain public fodder until resolution.
The fact remains Sony Music and its sister labels are encouraging the use of, performance enhancing equipment at the expense of existing Copyright, Music played on guitar via chord and melody sung by vocal, being transposed into melody and chord played on piano.
If I am to sit down at piano, with basic mandolin riff of the original composition taken into account based on Sony Music's own defence of which it is. What and how I am therefore supposed to play it!
This matter as original songwriter was noticed instantly in October 2010 and in whole in February 2011.
We than move onto the subject matter of Lyrical content and similar references to "Left Standing", "Never going to keep you outside".
As in contraction to the originals "Standing On The Balcony", "Don't leave them outside waiting".
Beyonce's occupation and justification Period !
We see computer programs and admittance that major record companies are now providing data to show clusters of "what makes a hit record". This again is a fallacy based on how one defines popular music (UK TV, What Makes A Master Piece).
Since the late 90's and through the decade of the zero's we have seen these same companies using pitch correction and template software, lifting and manipulating (again used in both show and advertising commercial for it), software to purposely sit down and say "Lets write a hit record".
It has become apparent and, the public have become all to aware what they are doing, and how they doing it hence we end up, with this type of situation and mainly artists of the fabricated lifestyle. Self professed music producers to write songs, based purely on this structure, it is therefore PES, and Manipulation.
So let us look at the legality side of this, as you will need to answer: If you are not prepared to self govern, you will need to answer and, when in breach of copyright you will need to answer to the full extent of the law.
Manipulation by pure term and excepted definition is:
The act of or practice of Manipulating / Shrewd or devious management, especially for one's own personal gain.
Backstairs influence, connotations of deceit.
Brainwashing - A method of changing an individual’s attitudes or alliances through the use of drugs, torture, psychological techniques, in any form of indoctrination.
During this 'monopoly' of the current world of popular music, we see, Infringements of existing sound recordings and "Off Chart" hits such as 'Standing On The Balcony'.
Not only chord patterns but melodies originated in vocal, placed on to piano, then provided with trappings of design and beat and formally labelled by these companies as "No Substantial Similarity", but wary enough to term the response, "Without Prejudice".
Real songwriters do not sit down at a computer even if they are using purchased suites of beats and patches with purpose to cut and paste, in mind of lifting already well known songs.
In cases of classic compositions, if an artist has emerged with an understanding of that nature you may find influences.
You may even find influences of phrasing or style of delivery, however as mentioned on the recent show, even with basic chord structures, it is 'unlikely', 'unusual', to ever find the same melody. In times when this has happened and identified it has been addressed through the process of "What is the law".
Regardless of how you dress a song for the purpose of "For Profit" "Commercial Sound Recording", and regardless of who that person is, when a song regardless of arrangement is stripped down to basic notation and sheet music, you cannot defend or hide the truth.
In light of this the industry must be brought to task and like in any business, prior to release of these types of computerized none organic releases, audits of the 'basic chord structure' and 'melody' by "composition audit", must be undertaken.
It is the duty of any governing body to uphold the laws which protect livelihoods and futures regardless of the layman view, to enforce and bring to task those who are using "PES".
As Carl Lewis rightly stated, after Ben Johnson had started to earn $480,000 per month in endorsements that in truth should have been his.
"There are a lot of people coming out of nowhere; I don't think they are doing it without drugs".
Many Thanks
Michael David Curley
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Recipient of 2007
The Angel Award (Anděl Award, Czech: cena Anděl ) is a Czech music award issued by the
Czech Academy of Popular Music.
(The Alan White Band)
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