Midnight In The Desert

[HumanBeing]

Last night was like witnessing the
#SecondComing

#Hallelujah Heather
#HeatherArmyIsOnTheMove

[bellNwhistle]

These poor people. :

[Sean92008]

I wonder long it'll be until Heather gives Vara a heart attack blow job?

I risk a response from a post so long ago...  FIFY.

Seriously, I think the money (sorry, I forgot who made this point that she's not being paid but needs to sell subscriptions) will be a big issue and pretty fast.  The increased bandwidth that she's supposedly going to draw and the extra downloads from the archives that she's supposedly going to draw will be expenses that Vara may not have thought about/planned for/estimated.  That is, if they're paying proper rights and mechanicals on the music alone.  If Vara is currently out of compliance on the mechanicals, the attention drawn to him could be costly.  During discovery, he would have to supply files going back all ages.  If not, he could be paying for downloads going back to when he started his podcast + damages and legal fees. 

With all that "what if" in my head, I can only follow that by saying that these two deserve each other.

It is within the realm of possibility that Michael thinks he is toying with the mouse...  While unlikely on the surface, he would be putting his network at risk with the exposure of litigation although, I'm sure Vara has some contractual separation (you know, something like Heather Wade is solely responsible for the material she provides).  Since he is providing cover for the music licensing, he's exposing himself.

[SpookyTim]

I'm throwing up in my mouth, "once upon a time, I was a nobody too, and a man named art bell heard that little nobody..."

[Walks_At_Night]

OMG - The items in Bart's Sharts Store have freakin' SKU numbers....................

Was going to pick up some Ell de toilette for Mrs. Walks but it's out of stock.   

[bellNwhistle]

I'm throwing up in my mouth, "once upon a time, I was a nobody too, and a man named art bell heard that little nobody..."

I have absolutely zero interest in hearing anything she has to say about Art at this point. Or about how she's "the legacy", or about how "Evil Keith" took everything away from her.  She knew Art for how long? Where the fuck does she get off?? 

[dsz]

Still not sure how a non compete can apply when she was terminated first. And I'm pretty sure everyone on here who is caught up in threats of legal action against Heather is just jealous. She's probably using her inheritance from Art to fund this and the music. She probably will lose money and won't make a dime. With her I think it's jointly a passion and a vendetta.

[bellNwhistle]

OMG - The items in Bart's Sharts Store have freakin' SKU numbers....................

Was going to pick up some Ell de toilette for Mrs. Walks but it's out of stock.

Everything's flying off the shelves!

I wonder if Bart's Sharts will sell LegASSy Mints, for bad breath..   or LeGASSY Mints, for when listening to MITD fakers has your bowels on the run?

[SpookyTim]

I'm pretty fed up with everything as of late. Just going to put my head down and keep doing what I do, and stop paying attention to the rest of it.

Although, that said, I'll be tuning in to the train wreck Monday night, just to see the running commentary here.

[Bart Ell]

OMG - The items in Bart's Sharts Store have freakin' SKU numbers....................

Was going to pick up some Ell de toilette for Mrs. Walks but it's out of stock.

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[bellNwhistle]

Still not sure how a non compete can apply when she was terminated first. And I'm pretty sure everyone on here who is caught up in threats of legal action against Heather is just jealous. She's probably using her inheritance from Art to fund this and the music. She probably will lose money and won't make a dime. With her I think it's jointly a passion and a vendetta.

It really does make you wonder. Art changed his will, perhaps?

[Sean92008]

Wrong - there is a way to get a license.
You go to the Harry Fox Agency and buy a license. The seller - Heather - has to pay 9.1 cents per song per download.  If there are 10 songs in a podcast and a single subscriber downloads all 20 podcasts in a month, that’s $18.20 per month she will owe Harry Fox for that one subscriber.  She says she’s charging $4.99.  That’s some business model.

Let’s suppose Harry Fox takes a couple of months to find her and she has 200 subscribers. She’ll get a bill for $7,280. That’s worth suing over.

Wow...  Earlier I posted that it used to be $0.10 a song for mechanicals.  $0.091 is amazing considering the ease of distribution now.  Of course, many artists are still ripped off by YouTube/Google.

Oh, the music gods, they'll shut down the server, they've got the power in their lobbying efforts.

[dsz]

No one keeps gasoline, matches, and a gun in their office.

[dsz]

It really does make you wonder. Art changed his will, perhaps?

Probably, and now she can just go crazy and do her thang and won't have to worry about money for a good long while. She is princess Heather now. Bow to her.

[Sean92008]

Music licensing is very complex. So far as I know Harry Fox would handle licensing the sale of all of the music Art used.  The copyright is owned by the publishers and they would have separate actions for copyright violations, especially if LNM network was not paying ASCAP and BMI.
The RIAA could also get involved.
All of this dates from the early 1900s when record companies and radio stations worked out how to monitize music. It doesn’t necessarily make sense.

I never got into too much of the details but there's a whole separately-negotiated deal with songs older than something like 1971 or 72...

[Juan]

Wow...  Earlier I posted that it used to be $0.10 a song for mechanicals.  $0.091 is amazing considering the ease of distribution now.  Of course, many artists are still ripped off by YouTube/Google.

Oh, the music gods, they'll shut down the server, they've got the power in their lobbying efforts.

The $0.091 is for downloads.  I think “records” are higher.
The 71-72 limitation came from a lawsuit filed by Flo and Eddie, formerly of The Turtles.  I think it applies to performance rights rather than mechanicals, though I haven’t researched it throughly.

[Mr Apnea]

Still not sure how a non compete can apply when she was terminated first. And I'm pretty sure everyone on here who is caught up in threats of legal action against Heather is just jealous. She's probably using her inheritance from Art to fund this and the music. She probably will lose money and won't make a dime. With her I think it's jointly a passion and a vendetta.

Could be a payout with the non-compete on termination.  She probably refused the cash and thinks that unbinds her.

[HumanBeing]

These poor people. :

But they have a place dedicated to submit their cat pictures. That should be fun right? ...right? 
She's carrying on the legacy #ArtBellLegacy

[Sean92008]

So Art was such a great mentor he let her sign a non compete clause? After all the bitching he did for years about non competes ha. I hope in the contract they put compete in quotation marks.

Who knows maybe they put an emoji instead of quotation marks... 

[HumanBeing]

I have absolutely zero interest in hearing anything she has to say about Art at this point. Or about how she's "the legacy", or about how "Evil Keith" took everything away from her.  She knew Art for how long? Where the fuck does she get off?? 

Giggity!

[Royal_Tenenbaum]

LMAO at this LNML clip. Vara left DMRN on bad terms. This is all about petty revenge and the dumb, blood sucking twat is happy to oblige. Schrader follows Vara's network, I don't see why he has to shit on Dave.

[bellNwhistle]

But they have a place dedicated to submit their cat pictures. That should be fun right? ...right? 
She's carrying on the legacy #ArtBellLegacy

Every Thursday night on Heather's show, she'll dedicate the evening to discussing cats- their mating habits, eating disorders, poop preferences (including chit-chat about how they scramble away quickly from the cat box, like a bat out of hell after dropping a deuce)...

Can't wait!

[bellNwhistle]

LMAO at this LNML clip. Vara left DMRN on bad terms. This is all about petty revenge and the dumb, blood sucking twat is happy to oblige. Schrader follows Vara's network, I don't see why he has to shit on Dave.

I bet that's the real reason Heather left Joe.. apart from his obviously sucky radio stream.

All to shit on Keith. What could be more funny for her to see him have lawyer fees out the ass trying to battle her in court?

[Mr Apnea]

Here is the Heather segment from last night's LNM shill show.

Vara loves Art bell - hahaha yeah right.

He called her Mrs. Heather Wade  - Priceless.

[Royal_Tenenbaum]

Heather:"Ever since I released my email, I've had a flood of messages asking one question: When is Heather coming back?!?"

How many times can Lasha email the same question in a day?

God, she sounds like such an arrogant bitch. She really thinks she is a star and she's doing Vara a favor. LAMOoooooo

[Shoveler]

Could be a payout with the non-compete on termination.  She probably refused the cash and thinks that unbinds her.

I doubt she'd get paid out, from everything I've seen and read it appears she broke the contract and Keith terminated her for it.  If Keith had broke it then there may have been language addressing some sort for buyout.  I think she's fucked on the legal end but again, she's got nothing to lose and it will cost Keith tens of thousands of dollars and probably a year (recent experience suing another company) to get a judgement which he will never be able to collect on.  The crazies will send her enough money to get some sort of legal representation that will do nothing but drag out the litigation.  What I'm curious and no nothing about are injunctions and how one might be used in this instance.

[dsz]

LMAO at this LNML clip. Vara left DMRN on bad terms. This is all about petty revenge and the dumb, blood sucking twat is happy to oblige. Schrader follows Vara's network, I don't see why he has to shit on Dave.

Maybe Dave is into scat. How well do we really know him.

[Royal_Tenenbaum]

Maybe Dave is into scat. How well do we really know him.

Point.

[HumanBeing]

Every Thursday night on Heather's show, she'll dedicate the evening to discussing cats- their mating habits, eating disorders, poop preferences (including chit-chat about how they scramble away quickly from the cat box, like a bat out of hell after dropping a deuce)...

Can't wait!

Those sprints they do after pooping, like they just stole something, is hilarious. Especially if they spin their legs desperately, like the roadrunner cartoon, trying to find traction on a hard surfaced floor 

[Sean92008]

I hope Keith files in Arizona...  Heather will either be forced to hire counsel who is licensed in Arizona (which, frankly, is easier in Nevada because of proximity) but these snakes will charge extra for the convenience.  I'd like to joke that she would want to represent herself because she's on a mission from Art.  [Remember, Keith has legal counsel already and all they'd have to pay is a filing fee to get the ball rolling.  After that, she's gotta lay out money.  Unless she inherited some, she's up shit creek.]

There is a real possibility that Keith's already on-board legal counsel might be advising him to let her sink her own ship.  So many of her missteps are on a much larger scale, namely the music rights.

I will personally be contacting the RIAA and Harry Fox and I encourage all of you to do so as well on Tuesday morning.  I'm sure they'd step up an investigation if it weren't just a "crank" or two.

I didn't look for long, but here's a contact e-mail at the RIAA: ispnoticefaq@riaa.com use a subject line like "Suspected Violation" and include the URL for the show's website (or with the archive) and the LNM website as well.

Here's the Harry Fox Agency contact information:  https://www.harryfox.com/find_out/contact-us.php

We don't need to do anything but bring attention to the powers that be.  Sit back and watch the shit flow downward.  If she's paying (like claimed) then no harm, no foul.

I personally doubt she is.  There's just no economic feasibility (as shown in posts by myself and Juan in the last 16 hours).  Her business model is using fairy dust, cat sacrifices and possibly a human sacrifice as well.  Unless she's working on her version of Brewster's Millions, she's not living in reality...

Now it's time for me to get the writing bug and come up with a screenplay on the late night paranormal radio wars.  Gabrielle Carteris is my choice for Heather.  I think Gabrielle would be thrilled to be playing a younger woman and, more importantly, I don't want to ruin anybody else's career.  Playing a psycho can lead to industry rejection for future roles less sinister.