Awareness for Cyberbullying
Following a recent escalation in online abuse directed at a number of our staff, family members and customers by a certain individual, Label Worx decided to setup a donation page in awareness of cyberbullying.
Below is the official statement issued by Label Worx:
In 2017 it came to our attention that an individual using the Label Worx service was acting fraudulently, by passing off other people’s work as their own. The individual concerned owned a number of accounts and labels, and was downloading tracks from third party Soundcloud accounts, changing the artist and title and submitting as original material via their own artist, label profiles and a number of fake profiles. We carried out an investigation after a receiving a number of complaints, and the individual’s accounts were closed.
In the months that followed the individual in question opened more accounts using assumed identities and continued to steal tracks from other Soundcloud users. When confronted they admitted to using fake profiles with us and Symphonic Distribution, but asserted that we owed them royalty payments regardless. As these royalties are legally due to the artists that owned the original tracks, we refused to pay due to the breach of our terms and conditions. We have liaised with Symphonic Distribution and they are supportive of our actions and are dealing with this individual as per their terms and conditions.
After further demands for payment, the individual has become increasingly threatening, sending threats via email and social media, and harassing some of our staff’s family members. We do not want to go into details about the nature of these threats, but they have escalated to the point that the individual has now been reported to the police, and they are building a case against them.
Label Worx will never tolerate threats against our staff, and in this instance we would advise any of our clients who have received messages from this individual not to engage with them.
We would also like to reiterate that Label Worx will not be keeping any of the royalties that have been paid as a result of these illegally obtained tracks. We will do our best endeavors to pay the original creators of the music, and anything left in our account will be donated to anti-cyber cullying charity www.cybersmile.org
We would like to thank our clients for their support, and hope that this unfortunate situation is swiftly resolved.
Label Worx
Below is the official statement issued by Label Worx:
In 2017 it came to our attention that an individual using the Label Worx service was acting fraudulently, by passing off other people’s work as their own. The individual concerned owned a number of accounts and labels, and was downloading tracks from third party Soundcloud accounts, changing the artist and title and submitting as original material via their own artist, label profiles and a number of fake profiles. We carried out an investigation after a receiving a number of complaints, and the individual’s accounts were closed.
In the months that followed the individual in question opened more accounts using assumed identities and continued to steal tracks from other Soundcloud users. When confronted they admitted to using fake profiles with us and Symphonic Distribution, but asserted that we owed them royalty payments regardless. As these royalties are legally due to the artists that owned the original tracks, we refused to pay due to the breach of our terms and conditions. We have liaised with Symphonic Distribution and they are supportive of our actions and are dealing with this individual as per their terms and conditions.
After further demands for payment, the individual has become increasingly threatening, sending threats via email and social media, and harassing some of our staff’s family members. We do not want to go into details about the nature of these threats, but they have escalated to the point that the individual has now been reported to the police, and they are building a case against them.
Label Worx will never tolerate threats against our staff, and in this instance we would advise any of our clients who have received messages from this individual not to engage with them.
We would also like to reiterate that Label Worx will not be keeping any of the royalties that have been paid as a result of these illegally obtained tracks. We will do our best endeavors to pay the original creators of the music, and anything left in our account will be donated to anti-cyber cullying charity www.cybersmile.org
We would like to thank our clients for their support, and hope that this unfortunate situation is swiftly resolved.
Label Worx
Organizer
Dominic Kerley
Organizer
THE CYBERSMILE FOUNDATION
Registered nonprofit
Donations eligible for Gift Aid.
