B. Bumble and The Stingers Blast UK's Ace Records Ltd Off Amazon, Cripples Ace's U.S. Distribution

B. Bumble and The Stingers, famed for hits such as "Nut Rocker" and "Bumble Boogie," notches victory in the copyright infringement battle with Ace Records Ltd and other record labels pirating B. Bumble recordings.

Jan Davis, the original B. Bumble, stated, "Amazon, and all major download sites, along with multiple online retail stores, have dumped all labels and suppliers claiming to own rights to B. Bumble and The Stingers sound recordings, once it was confirmed they do not own the rights. Most distributors have also complied with removals, because they don't want to be associated with copyright infringements. Any infringing record labels or suppliers who continue to market illegal B. Bumble and The Stingers product, will be charged severely."

Infringing labels and suppliers located so far include, Ace Records Ltd, Global Music and Media, Lynn Adajian label, IODAalliance.com and Cleopatra Records. Some have supplied major music download sites for years, claiming ownership, until their infringing product was recently removed either from online retail stores or major download sites.

When Davis and his associates discovered other labels popping-up worldwide, he commented, "B. Bumble is having babies! The unjust part of this is, that all infringers are making money on the backs of writers, publishers, producers and artists."

Stone Tiger Records, with "B. Bumble and The Stingers-Blast From The Past," remains in good standing on download sites. Why? Because Stone Tiger Records legally owns all rights to B. Bumble and The Stingers product. http://www.stonetigermusic.com/bbumble/index.htm

Legal sources tell copyright owners, "We handle about one case of infringement a week, and as a result, the major download sites are asked to remove CD albums that are in question, as to who owns what." (Example: Unfortunately, anyone can claim they own a car, but can they prove it? OK, where's the pink slip, Jack?)

This fiasco is growing into one of the biggest cases of infringement and piracy combined in Indie musical history, which involves fifteen infringed copyrights on one CD album, starting with Ace Records Ltd out of Great Britain, in 1995. Ace Records Ltd has been selling the CD, "B. Bumble and The Stingers-Nut Rocker and All The Classics" in the USA and worldwide, without the publisher's permission, and haven't paid a nickel due in royalties to publishers, artists and producers on the fifteen infringed copyrights.

Why are these types of infringements so widespread? According to the legal copyright owners:
"Through our extensive internal and outside investigations, we've found how it generally works, in many cases. A culprit record label chooses an older group or artist and checks the status of the act. After all, it's been 50 years or so, and the artists have to be 70 or 80 years old. A group from the late 60's or 70's are either broken up, in a retirement home or dead. They may be unable to keep track of their past musical works, or they don't comprehend the technology of digital transferring. Unbeknownst to the artists, their sound recordings end up on a culprit label, offered for download on major web sites. This infringing label attests and warrants to all download sites that they own the rights. The site administrators assume they're stating the truth, so major sites upload the infringing CD albums!

When web site download royalties are paid to these culprits, no portion of payments are made to the copyright holders. Who's going to find out, the artists? No, they're dead. The culprits think there's no chance they'll be caught. But, when they ARE caught, the first thing culprits say is, "We didn't know" or "We couldn't find the copyright owners," when in fact, they are guilty as hell. The U.S. Department of Justice is cracking down on piracy, internationally, along with the FBI domestically, as well as many other agencies concerned with this thievery. We're not through with these crooks. It's a big job, but somebody's got to do it, because it's blatant infringement and it's against the law."

Meanwhile, through Stone Tiger Records, B. Bumble and The Stingers, featuring Jan Davis Guitar, are in pre-production with a brand-new CD album, already entitled: "Rockin' Off-The Resurrection" and Davis says, "We're gonna kick some updated butt with this one, cause we're still cookin!"

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