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Originally Posted by mario_d
I know that he refuses to give them any credit whatsoever for songs that were developed while he was in Juniper, which they played on. Which is a really ****ty thing to do.
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Originally Posted by mario_d
There's a lot of stuff there, its pretty messy. But here's what we know. Damien registered songs in his name alone. BellX1 registered as their names and Damien, and released a few on albums. Damien didn't sue to get 100% of the royalties for songwriter on those tunes even though he's claimed to be sole songwriter.
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You read a lot into a discrepancy in how the songs are registered, and you ignore the possibility that they could have talked and agreed to how things were to be done. You skip to conclusions that are sympathetic towards BellX1 and critical of Damien, but you could just as well skip to the exact opposite conclusions from the same set of facts. There simply is not enough information available to make any reasonable conclusion.
I noticed that the work ID numbers between each version of the songs are close to each other. This doesn't prove anything, but with other artists I've seen that songs registered at the same time have numbers that are near each other -- it could be an indicator that both parties discussed it and registered each of the songs at the same time. Or it could be 4 huge coincidences.
VOLCANO (Damien Rice: 520294559 / BellX1: 520294577)
TONGUE (Damien Rice: 501522678 / BellX1: 501522696)
FACE (Damien Rice: 360803712 / BellX1 360803730)
WOMAN LIKE A MAN (Damien Rice: 530967812 / BellX1: 530967830)
Tongue is registered without crediting Damien here:
http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?...erytype=WorkID
What a ****ty thing to do, right? Nope, still don't know enough about the situation.