Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins
Thus spake Brian Ristuccia on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:12:06AM CDT
> On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:36:47PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> > Seth David Schoen writes:
> >
> > > accreted on top of the copyright system, so that authors have become
> > > quite insistent about their absolute "ownership" of their work, and
> >
> > I should probably say that agents and publishers have become quite
> > insistent about their absolute ownership of the authors' work.
> >
>
> I think the recording industry is trying to purchase (or has recently
> purchased) a law that satisfies this insistence. The gist I got was that the
> law would make all work they publish will be considered a work for hire.
> This it would be impossible to publish your own recordings through a record
> company without effectively assigning the copyright to that record company.
There are several levels of 'ownership' here. What are called 'mechanical'
rights - the rights to the actual recorded sound are different from the
rights to the arrangement, lyrics and music. I can see where record
companies might assume, or want to assume ownership of the mechanical rights
(especially if they finance the recording sessions), but I expect they'd be
digging their own graves if they insisted on ownership of the copyrights to
works for which they publish recordings. There are a lot of pretty powerful
publishing companies in the music business which would take serious
exception to such a 'law'. Then, too, every deal is different in the music
business. The more money making potential you have as an artist, the better
terms you can get on a contract for a project with a record company.
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