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Re: I Can See For Miles; Copyrights; Each to his own sewage



Copyright doesn't say anything about royalties, which I presume is a different area of law (perhaps related to taxes?). ;)

The current system was apparently an attempt to get some recompense out to the songwriters for the various uses of their songs, but it ends up being run by perception (and maybe favoritism), rather than scientific sampling. There was some good information on the lists about it when Pete was having his little set-to with BMI.

keets


>Pete may have been referring to British copyright law. I know that, for example, coverbands don't have to pay royalties to all the bands they cover.

You are so COMPLETELY wrong!!!!! And to put it to rest, FINALLY, this is what the effin' US Copyright office has to say about it:

Subject to sections 107 through 121, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;

(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and

(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

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