Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins
On 21-May-00, 01:51 (CDT), Lindsay Haisley <fmouse@fmp.com> wrote:
> 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.
You'd think so, but apparently they don't. See
http://wallofsound.go.com/archive/news/stories/donhenley050900.html
Note that so far the bill has been passed only in the US House, not the
Senate.
Steve
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