:>the point is that james newton created :>the original piece; it's his work, so he has the right to do with it what :>HE wants. : :Does he really have that right? :There is a school of thought that once a piece of work is in the public :domain it belongs to everyone.
Yes but this is usually accompanied by the proviso that then anyone that freely uses the work must give the same rights for other people to use theirs (this is definitely the case in open source agreements, copyleft etc) And in this case im fairly surely the beastie boys would have something to say about a high profile artist sampling some of their music and using it without permission - in fact im pretty sure I heard that they wont even license tracks to appear on compilations. Cheers neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
