----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <[email protected]>
To: "howard posner" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Lute Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:23 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: seeking advice
OOn 01/02/2012 22:51, howard posner wrote:
On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Stuart Walsh wrote:
So: is it in any way reasonable for a composer to ask/insist that I put
my name on youtube videos? The whole thing sounds so utterly ridiculous
and implausible that there must be some other explanation. The only
obvious thing I can think of is that the composer is worried that my
clunky efforts might be misunderstood as the composer's. Should I worry
about that? (More to the point? Why are they worrying about that?)
It's his music. He holds the rights to it. Let's assume, without
getting into the details of international copyright law, that he can
prevent your posting a performance of his music altogether (which is
probably true, if you're paying him nothing). If so, he has the de facto
right to impose conditions on your using it.
Thanks Monica and Howard. How extraordinary?
As I understood it, his more or less insistence that I put my name on my
performance of his music was not from a legal perspective at all. My worry
was that it was from sort of moral perspective and that I was failing to
see what that was.
How extraordinary that the millions of posters on youtube, who have
actually bought the music that they play, and earn no money from what they
play, should be paying for for the privilege? Presumably this is an 'in
principle' (as it were, 'de jure') concept whereas 'de facto' a gazillion
players - or none at all - play on youtube without payment to the
composer.
Unless we're talking at totally cross purposes (which I suspect we are) a
composer has no de facto rights (he's going to come and beat me up?)
Well - it's all a question of whether you get caught and whether it is
possible to prove that you are infringing copyright.
You are right though - it seems this composer has a different agenda. It
is difficult to see what this might be unless he is the only person who
usually plays his own music and he doesn't want you to be mistaken for him.
If he is so touchy perhaps it is better to avoid him and his work. Is it
really worth playing?
Monica
Stuart
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