On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:51:16AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > 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.
No, Brian was right. They onw the tune, they own the lyrics, they own the recordings. Essentially, they grant you the band a license to perform the music nowadays. So it is in the US, thanks to the RIAA. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine. Don't you think that something named stallman deserves to be an Alpha? :-) <stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386 with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman. <stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor * Knghtbrd falls to the floor holding his sides laughing <stu> and.. <stu> double-height hard drive
