anildash said:

BartVanHemelen said:

I've been deeply critical of Prince over the years, including directly to the man himself. Given that I've never been anything but respectful to you over the last 20 years, I'm not sure why you'd make up a falsehood and then phrase it in such a nasty way. Now, like most decent people, I observed the death of someone who brought me a lot of joy by focusing on the negative instead of the positive, but that's just the humane thing to do. Overzealous enforcement of intellectual property rights isn't disqualification from being a geek; in fact given examples like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, I'd say it's more in keeping with most lay people'a view of geeks than the copyleft lassiez faire attitude of less prominent geeks.

BVH you seriously need to respond to this. At the very least an apology is owed.

Anil..would love to know how it went when you were critical to prince himself!

AndrePatrone said:

TrivialPursuit said:

First, that's way too long to read, so I skipped it.

Second, Prince got his masters back from WB in 2014. In fact, he started getting them back, because of copyright laws, before that. You really need to read more, and not read into anything. The truth is here on the Org, so you need to start digging.

how do you know i need to read more if my post was too long for you to read? was there something you (didnt) read up there that convinced you i dont read enough? #thanksforreading

lmfao...perfect reply to a condescending post.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

anildash said:

For the record: "In 2014, the Warner Music Group gave Prince ownership of his U.S. master recordings, through negotiation, instead of the two sides pursuing litigation to see if a typical major label recording contract's insertion of a work-for-hire clause would be recognized in court." http://www.billboard.com/...atest-hits It's almost like some of us know what we're talking about.

Well said Anil. BVH seems to be in a state of total denial or views his lack of empathy to the death of Prince as a strength rather than a weakness. He relies on his forced negative perspective to cloud the facts & as you have just shown hard core facts are a damn site more credible than hate filled comments.

Am I right in thinking you actually worked with prince or at least those close to him?

And in 2 years from getting his masters back, He's Dead! So did they do him in? Give him his masters back but in a little time we coming after you??? He didn't get to do nothing with his masters, right???