Excellent idea.
I doubt it will "bring the company" down, however. They'll just get a letter demanding royalties, legal threats, and likely not much else. Too small a fish.
If they were making 1,000s of copies of movies, selling them on DVDs, then maybe. But lots of places are getting away with that kind of stuff too.
Still there is hope this could result in a large enough fine, or legal action, or a desire to make an example of them, or an attorney whose husband went through this crap, had an affair or something, and really wants to bring them down (and Great Life and all the others doing this too at the same time) then maybe it could happen.
Still with even 100 in Quest, 70 in Summit, 50 in Lift off (conservative numbers) that's 50,000 + 50,000 + 30,000 + TIT and mastery revenues (another $50,000) so about $180,000 per month, that's revenuses for the Impact Training company of:
over $2,000,000.00 per year in (and probably closer to $3,000,000.00/year); call it $2,500.000.00 as a best-guess, rough estimate of annual income.
(BTW: I'll bet their total expenses are a tiny fraction of that. Non-Berger-Family staff salaries, rent, utilities, etc being well under $1,000.000/per year, and the Bergers (David, Hans, Sally, Heidi, etc) pocketing over $1,500,000.00 total).
I doubt ASCAP or BMI is going to be able to go after them for more than a tiny fraction of their total income.
How about the TIT materials. Anyone have copies of all the latest stuff? Suppose they paid copyright fees for any of that?
Perhaps if we pull it all together, find the right attorney, get the interest of some copyright agency . . .
Again, a great idea. Willing to help make this happen . . .
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Unfortunately, at least as far as I can tell, there's no easy reporting process for violations of music copyright. (Unlike the cable TV companies that now have a website for anomyously reporting cable theft (I'll be Hans has an illegal Dish Network box too though!)
How about someone goes through Quest to TIT III with a wire on, records everything, and WE sell the CDs of that.
Wonder how Hans would feel? And why he/they see it differently when stealing the creative work of so many others?
Oh, right, they stole it all from Lifespring to begin with. Silly me.
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