Mrs. May is right - sometimes a bad deal really is worse than no deal
Rt. Hon Theresa May MP Crown Copyright Open Government Licence v.3.- Jane Lambert It is hard not to feel a little bit sorry for Mr Ray Dorset , the lead singer of Mungo Jerry , whose case I discussed yesterday in Music and Entertainment Law: Music Contracts - Editions Musicales Alpha S.A.R.L. v Universal Music Publishing Ltd and Others 28 June 2017 NIPC Law. Mr Dorset wrote the words of the hit song Alright, Alright, Alright from which he might reasonably have expected a shed load of money as it reached number 3 in the charts. Instead, he has been ordered to pay £33,600 plus costs to a company run by a former business associate of his former manager. It could have been even worse for Mr Dorset as a claim by that company against him for breach of contract might well have succeeded. So how did he find himself in that position? Well, his first problem was that he tried to record a song without first getting the per...