I am posting this this petition to Boycott any and all properties, music products, etc created, owned or sponsored by Bourne Music publishers due their dispicable threats against a ten year old child living in the UK and trying to raise money for a local Children's Hospice. This girl used her own money that she'd worked for to create a video of her performing a Charlie Chaplin routine, and then post it on a donation website where she urged people to please consider making a donation after watching the video. This was a ten year old girl proving she was capable of humanitarian charity and she was stomped on by a big NY company who knew they could threaten her and win. She was not making a personal profit and it was wholly funded by her own money, she being a minor, I feel that it would have been much better PR for them to simply ask that she at least site their business's name as owning the rights to the music and lyrics. That would have been fair, but to threaten to fine her for almost the same amount as the donations she'd managed to encourage so far---Dispicable!
story link:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Charlie-Chaplin-Bethany-Hare-Silenced-By-Copyright-Bill-From-Bourne-Music-Publishers/Article/201007315668526?lpos=UK_News_Third_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__3&lid=ARTICLE_15668526_Charlie_Chaplin%3A_BeAlso, if you feel as I do, please contact Bourne Music Publishers and let them know about it:
bourne@bournemusic.comBOURNE CO. MUSIC PUBLISHERS
5 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
Tel: (212) 391-4300
Fax: (212) 391-4306
