Crazy! and all the more reason I have have no respect for these selfish
bullies.
beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Redistributing RPG Source Books
Hi Dark,
Well, the copyright laws may have been intended to protect the
original author rather than the distributors, but that seems to have
been reversed in recent years. I know of several cases where various
musicians have had to go to court in order to get the copyrights back
from their prior recording company because the company assumes its own
distribution copyrights on that music preventing the original band or
artist from singing or playing that song with a different company or
label. Some band might make a song with Warner and switch to RCA. If
they want to play that song live, record a live album using RCA, etc
they must go to court and get copyright control of their own music
from Warner even though they created it in the first place. Talk about
screwed up copyright laws!
For example, John Fogerty, the leade singer and guitar player for
Creedents Clearwater Revival, left the band in the early 80's to
create his own solo career under a different music label.Even though
most of the songs in the Creedents Clearwater Revival catalog were
written by John Fogerty, created by him, he was not permited to sing,
play, or make reference to his prior work since he was under a
different music label. Eventually, he turned around and sued the
record company and won. However, it wasn't until the mid 90's until he
was able to resume copyright control of the Creedents' catalog which
is ridiculous since he is the man behind that bands music and fame.
Sadly he isn't the only person who got screwed over by a greedy record
company.
Dianna Ross, the lead singer for the Supremes, also had something of a
copyright battle with the record companies for her music. Like John
Fogerty she decided to go out on her own, create some new albums under
her own name, and found out as long as she wasn't with the Supremes
she wasn't legally permitted to sing or play any of the hits from the
Supremes catalog. Eventually, around 1987 she battled the record
company and ended up assuming copyright control over the Supremes
catalog. Music that should have been her's by right in the first
place. Go figure.
However, the point I want to make is there is a distressing tend for
publishers, record companies, and other distributors to assume the
copyrights of any works they publish.Even if they don't have full
control they usually get some sort of secondary copyright that
prevents the author or artist from publishing using some other company
which simply isn't fair at all.
Cheers!
On 6/15/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
The odd thing is, if you go back in time that is not how copywrite
started,
or what it was intended to do. it was not the protection of the printer
or
distributor, but of the author, so that nobody could claime credit or
financial compensation for his/her work without being the one who
actually
came up with the idea.
I hope the eventual outcome will be a return to that sort of status,
where
distributors change their focus from actually distributing a product and
attemptinng to create demmand for it, but advertizing the author's own
work
so that people who wish can gain the music, art, literature or whatever
directly from them, with compensations made for their work, not for the
ownership of a specific copy of it.
This is the way that sites like podiobooks and darker projects work, and
I've donated cash to those sites myself because I like what they do, and
my
disagreement with publishers and distributers isn't with the authors of
the
work originally, ---- indeed if I had my choice, I'd much rather just
send
money directly to the author for an accessible copy.
Indeed, now that things like books can be written and distributed
without!
the need of printers, publishers etc, I would hope to see these people
disappear altogether, or at least take a back seat, only providing
physical
books and cds to those who want them as semi ornamental items, rather
than
people just interested in the words or music itself.
We'll have to see though, sinse the hole economic status of the world is
going to hell in a hand baskit at the moment, thanks to corporate
interest
in control of nations and too many self interested parties working up
massive debts that nobody can actually pay, and I'm fairly certain the
next
10 or 15 years will se a major crash of one sort or another. Hopefully
people will learn better afterwards, assuming we get through it.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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