"Factory Girl" album on iTunes

[Lerxst]

I was doing a search of Alizee on iTunes and came across something very interesting. There is an album listed by Alizee called "Factory Girl". Upon inspecting the list of songs on the album, it is, apparently, UEDS under a different name with a different album cover. Apparently, UEDS has been released in North America as "Factory Girl".

[paintballpdh19]

yes i see...the only thing is that the preview for grand central is the wrong song

[Azhiri]

I wasn't aware that UEdS was released in North America at all, in any form. Who is that on the cover and why isn't it Alizee..? That cover looks "cheap" D:

Also the song labeled "Grand Central" and "Limelight" are the same song. What gives iTunes?

[mzracing76]

wow, could someone be infringing on a copy right law violation?

[Plaz]

I've seen this happen before with other artist albums and singles i'm not sure exactly why ....cause i've seen Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance series labeled as volumes 1-8 instead of the real title ASOT 2011 etc... but i think it happens because sometimes it's distributed through a different label...

[DrSmith]

http://www.emusic.com/label/William-F-Cook-TuneCore-MP3-Download/660055.html

William F Cook / TuneCore Albums


I'm not prepared to look into this right now, but TuneCore seems highly suspicious. This could be an unauthorised, possibly illegal release of Alizée's music that someone else is collecting money from.

[lefty12357]

TuneCore helps musicians get their music distributed through outlets such as iTunes. That's about all I know of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuneCore

I wonder if someone submitted Alizée's music to them, claiming it to be their own, and TuneCore failed to determine the rightful copyright holders. If Alizée or her team submitted it, then I would expect the album artwork to have her picture on it, even if they decided to change the name. Yes, it is all very suspicious.

Edit: I see it's available at Amazon too. http://www.amazon.com/Factory-Girl/dp/B005329F4C/ref=sr_shvl_album_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1308272290&sr=301-4

[User22]

I still can't beleive that this illegal "Factory Girl" album is still up.

To those of you who are experienced in the field of music and copyright laws (Lefty, umm...others) we should write a legitimate letter to iTunes stating the reasons why it should not be allowed on iTunes. This is a chance to do some awesome detective work!

[User22]

I still can't beleive that this illegal "Factory Girl" album is still up.

To those of you who are experienced in the field of music and copyright laws (Lefty, umm...others) we should write a legitimate letter to iTunes stating the reasons why it should not be allowed on iTunes. This is a chance to do some awesome detective work!

[Kronos]

It's also on Spotify, and has been for quite some time now

[User22]

It's also on Spotify, and has been for quite some time now

Hmph :( thanks for the heads up. It's sad how someone can make an imposter album and get the money for the songs...

[lefty12357]

What's weird is that they have a picture of actress Jennifer Garner as the cover art on Amazon. It appears that customers can "share their own images", so I wonder if that picture was just put up there by anybody.

The album is still on Amazon, but it says "not available" after each song now. Maybe someone has found this to be an imposter and shut them down.

[battousai]

seems Spotify has finally got Une Enfant du Siècle and Psychédélices but still has that factory girl album.