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Can they still use my music?

I played in a band since I was 13 yrs of age, I left the band when I turned 21, We released 2 CD'S and are still selling, Can they still
use Music?

 
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Submitted 337 days ago...

sidelko

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Are they sold independently or through a label?

Either way, they still can. Look at all the major bands out there like Evanescence, Korn, Static-X, KMFDM, etc, etc, that had a band member leave and how their album is still in print and being sold. usually there is a royalty agreement in place where the band members who contributed to that album, still get paid for album sales, even after they leave the band. so Ben Moody is still making a killing on the first Evanescence album.

How this relates to you, is I don't know if you signed a contract or anything that agrees how the band splits the revenue from the cds. If anything, you could see if they could still share a % of revenue with you.

otherwise your options would be to forget it and just move on and be happy people still listen to and buy those cds, or else go to small claims court for revenue that you should be earning on those sold album or demand an up front payment for future use of selling those albums.

 

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