We are the owner of all publishing rights, master-records, mechanical rights & remixes from all Danny Casseau’s previous work on Big Time International (also Gravity & Tructure of course) & all his future work. This also includes all the works from his pseudonyms. Other labels, publishers, persons, Sabam, social media platforms, music distributors, … can’t clear his work without a license from the copyright owner (DCGUESS) and the author-composer (DANNY CASSEAU) himself. It’s not on us to proof the ownership, it’s up to all of you to proof that you received a license. The burden of proof lies with you and not with us, that’s how the law works, so your terms of services and policies are subjacent and completely irrelevant regarding the copyright laws and our copyrighted work.

There’s a misunderstanding worldwide that the ownership must be proven before a court, by an agent or a lawyer. This is completely wrong:

Bern convention for the protection of literary & artistic works (Paris Text 1971): In order that the author of a literary or artistic work protected by this Convention shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be regarded as such, and consequently be entitled to institute infringement proceedings in the countries of the Union, it shall be sufficient for his name to appear on the work in the usual manner. This paragraph shall be applicable even if this name is a pseudonym, where the pseudonym adopted by the author leaves no doubt as to his identity.

So, ownership is automatically attributed to the author-composer himself, while it’s to the other party to prove that they received legally a license to use the copyrighted work. Social media platforms are responsible for copyrighted material uploaded by users & must obtain licenses from copyright holders to host the content and must take down infringing content expeditiously upon notification – See Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive – EU Directive 2019/790. Fair use isn’t applicable from copyright work made in Europe.

And even then, composers or authors retain 100% of their writer’s share while only giving 50% of the publisher’s share to a publishing company. This means that the author-composer remains also an owner of the work because he keeps his original share and a portion of the publishing rights, making him also a copyright holder with the publisher and in our case, we’re both.

Edits, remixes, bootlegs, uploads on social media, portals, distributors… everything without a license will be dealt appropriately with it. If you want to make a bumper car version with kindergarten melodies from one of his tracks, well, that will never happen again, make that garbage with one of your own original tracks, no licenses are possible anyway. Oh yeah, no ghostproducers were used in any of his productions ever.