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. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | |
