Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

[David H. Bailey]

Christopher BJ Smith wrote:

[snip]
> Because of the way copyright laws are set up, the person who worked out 
> those beautiful chords to all those Berlin tunes doesn't get a penny of 
> royalties, as only lyrics and melodies are copyrightable. Yet, IMHO, 
> those songs might not have been the successes that they were without the 
> contribution of the assistant, so wouldn't they be due a bit of spare 
> change?
> 



And Irving Berlin was nothing if not a savvy businessman, so I am sure 
all those assistants had signed contracts which stipulated that all the 
work they did for his company was work for hire, so even their 
counter-melodies were his by contract.




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David H. Bailey
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