On 14 Mar 2006 at 10:37, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

> The computer comparison seems somehow hollow. The arranger is in no
> way obliged to agree to this at all.

Neither is a computer programmer. The comparison is completely apt, 
as it's a work-for-hire situation when absent the contract, the 
creator of the arrangement/computer program would have rights to it 
(though there is a difference in that the computer programmer is 
creating something original, rather than arranging someone else's 
copyrighted work).

When I'm programming, work-for-hire contracts pay me much more, 
because it means I have to program differently (I can't use my usual 
library of tools that I've created over the years, because I don't 
want to give up my rights to them).

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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