Plastic Head Music Distribution Ltd. Arvostelua 

My staff are completely incompetent. Sales are down and company ows 2.5 million.

Conrad Lant v. Plastic Head Music Distribution Ltd. and others

Intellectual Property Enterprise Court

Miss Recorder Amanda Michaels:

1. Between 1979 and 1986, the Claimant (“Mr Lant”) and the Second Defendant (“Mr Bray”) performed together as members of the hard rock band professionally known as ‘Venom’. During that period, Venom performed live and recorded and released music, including albums entitled ‘Welcome to Hell’, ‘Black Metal,’ ‘At War with Satan’ and ‘Possessed.’

2. Many claims between members of bands relate to the authorship of their songs or rights in the band’s name. Unusually, this claim and counterclaim relate only to the subsistence and ownership of the copyright in certain artworks and photographs associated with Venom. It appears that the dispute arose because Mr Bray licensed the First Defendant to sell merchandise bearing the copyright works, and the Third Party was similarly licensed by Mr Lant, and each of them objects to the other’s licensing activities. This judgment follows the trial of liability only.

3. Mr Lant claimed that he had been the author of 6 artistic works and that he was and remained the owner of the copyright subsisting in them. The 6 works are shown in Annex A to this judgment. The Defendants’ case was either that Mr Bray was the author of the works, or that the works were too derivative to qualify for copyright protection. They counterclaimed in respect of the works of which Mr Bray claimed authorship and in respect of Mr Lant and the Third Party’s use of two additional works, photographs used on album covers, which he said were also his copyright works. Those are shown in Annex B.

4. Neither side in this dispute pleaded that the band members’ relationship amounted to a partnership at will or suggested that any copyright in issue before me would have been an asset of any such partnership. In closing arguments, Mr Colbey suggested that some of the works might have been works of joint authorship, jointly owned. That was unpleaded and was not put to the Claimant. I do not consider it open to me to make any finding as to joint authorship or ownership of any of the works in issue.

Background

5. One of the problems with this case is that the witnesses were trying to recall events which took place many years ago, essentially between about 1979 and the mid-1980s, with very little contemporaneous documentation to help them. Most of them were teenagers at the beginning of that period, and it seemed to me from their evidence that Mr Lant, Mr Bray and their band mate Jeffrey Dunn, who gave evidence for Mr Bray, concentrated on making the band a success, rather than on any legal niceties about the nature of their trading relationship or copyright ownership. Indeed, Mr Dunn’s view was that at that time the teenage band members “hadn’t a clue.” I discuss the conflicts of evidence later in this judgment, but at this point I will try to set out the history of the band and of this dispute in general terms.

Searching for a CD online after exhausting my usual companies I Googled title and found this company. CD was in stock, I ordered between Christmas and New Year so wasn't expecting shipping to be until after New Year, however I was advised that the item would be shipped before New Year and it was. Communication with staff was genuinely friendly, after reading some of the reviews on here, I couldn't understand how bad they were. CD arrived immediately after New Year, well packaged and CD itself was brand new and sealed.

Please don't buy anything from theses people. I have paid and not received item

Yet another order arrived damaged. Will have to go through the rigmarole of sending it back. If it had just been packaged properly in the first instance, I wouldn't feel the need to write this review.

Ordered a tshirt, quality print and fabric. It came with a free graphic novel and some stickers too.
Packaging was great, arrived unblemished.
Postage was fast, arrived within a couple of days.
The shirts was too big for me (my mistake), so I contacted customer support and we sorted our a return and replacement for the next size down. They responded fast and the whole process was stress free.
I've got my replacement shirt now and it fits great.
I was worried about ordering from here after reading some of the other reviews, but they must have improved drastically since they were posted.
I would recommend and order from here again.

Absolutely horrendous.

I made my shirt order with my friends doing separate ones on October 17th 2022. It's been 4 months and now my package says its leaving the UK while all my friends got their packages within 2 weeks.

When I followed up with them 2 months ago they didn't have a shirt of mine in stock and they didn't even finish packing and sending my stuff!

Atrocious, never ordering from them again.

Pre-ordered a vinyl on their website on 13/01/23 only to be told on the 26th that the item had been over allocated. Really poor website management. Won't be using them again for any reason and would warn people of the same.

Just checked the website, still lists the album, Sting by Emarosa as being available. Pretty shocking.

Ordered from the US, and I don't understand the costumer service complains. Unless you’re just outright rude, I doubt they would be the same. They answered all my questions promptly and accordingly. Shipping to the US didn’t take long and I ordered around thanksgiving, so maybe just a couple weeks. The shirt is just fine, honestly better than I expected. You shouldn’t expect a premium heavyweight shirt, but the fabric isn't terrible and the print is great. After a couple washes it should feel even better. Don’t hesitate buying long-sleeves from them if your not expecting a designer feel and you'll be pleased. Also, if you’re worried about shirts in stock, just email in advance and you'll avoid all of these problems.

Haven’t used for years but was looking at getting a few t- shirts and some are hard to find, so… Ordered in stock items, order was just sitting there and not despatched so after some time I emailed Them and they replied quickly with an apology and said they would look into it. Had an email confirming despatched and they arrived within a few days, so they turned it around. Unexpectedly had extra items too, a book and dvd. Checked the invoice and all correct. What can I say, but that’s how you do it. Thanks, I will be back

Camiseta y sudadera compradas desde España. Despues de pagar el envio 10,11£, para recoger el paquete en Correos, he tenido que pagar 25,64€, y la tienda no se hace cargo. Ojo con este detalle a la hora de hacer pedidos a esta pagina.

Delivery took 14 days as they said and the choice in products is really wide

Items listed as in stock when ordered on the website are sometimes out of stock and it takes to long get a response when enquiring about orders.

Ordered my shirt from the UK last week and 7 days later it arrived in Holland. Great shop, fast shipping!