In July, 2007, “an unsigned Reader’s Write accused Fred Wilhelms (right) of having a vested interest in criticizing SoundExchange for not paying artists,” said p2pnet last month, going on »»» The author later proved to be Dick Huey (right), one of the RIAA-appointed ‘label representatives’ on the SoundExchange board of directors. An exchange of comments ended in Huey agreeing to answer questions put to him, partly in apology for what he acknowledged was an unjustified personal attack on Wilhelms Huey’s responses have been a long time coming, but here they are, in part, at least »»» Dear Fred, This took longer to respond to than I wanted – both because of a busy couple weeks, and because we moved away from the topics where I have direct knowledge and into areas that require research on my part. I’m not interested in being a SoundExchange conduit for every question you’d like answered – SoundExchange has official communication outlets, which you should engage directly with to answer your questions.

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Dick Huey to Fred Wilhelms …