Text 9919, 56 rader
Skriven 2013-08-20 15:10:46 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
   Kommentar till text 9917 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Re: Intellectual property
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BF> Also, you are wrong about the Beatles vs. Michael Jackson. On the
BF> record label it would say (c) Michael Jackson (or whatever company name
BF> he used).
 
I think we are talking of different things.
 
McCartney composed "Yesterday". When it was published on Northern Music it said
"Lennon/McCartney" on the disc label. When Michael Jackson owned it (his estate
doesn't any longer, McCartney aquired it back) vinyl and CDs produced still
mentioned "Lennon/McCartney", not "Michael Jackson".
 
McCartney never could sign away the intellectual property right, it is always
with you.
 
I have a contract deal with "Wolters-Kluwer" (www.kluwer.com) which is a
market-leading publishing company focussed on professionals. My field of
expertise is "environment" and "sustainability". I get orders for articles and
then research them, write them and deliver them. For that I get paid a fee
which is not a salary. They become the content owner of the article and have
the right to resell it to other publishers.
 
Some work of mine has gone into National Geographic and other publications for
which I was NOT paid, that's the deal, but my name still is under the article.
 
Hmmm ... maybe that's still something else. Anyway, I had an attorney figure it
out and negotiate with Kluwer's attorney so that I wouldn't get screwed.
 
BF> This is something very special for the music industry, where artists
BF> are forced to give up their intellectual rights if they want to sign for
BF> a major label. Unlike e.g. authors of books that always keep their
BF> rights.
 
Which probably is what I described above, but I nevertheless think that once a
composer has his name under a piece of music, intellectually it is his. What
you describe probably is the case where composers are linked to a publisher but
are not allowed to use their name. "My way" is such an example.
 
BF> John Fogerty (of Creedence Clearwater Revival) discovered that he no
BF> longer is allowed to play his own music -- without paying royalty for
BF> it...
 
Tell you what, if I buy blank CDs or DVDs in Belgium, I have to pay copyright
on the content that is not yet on it even if what I will be putting on it is
stuff that I made myself. Are they that crazy too in Sweden?
 
That's why I recently bought 5 100-DVD spindles in CostCo for a ridiculous
US$19.99 per spindle and took 'm home. Same brand, physically same product
produced in the same factory somewhere in Asia. Overhere it costs about & Euro
per disc.
 
ARGGHHHHHHHHH.....
 
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