Hi All:
I hope this message goes through to everyone on the list. It's my first
attempt on discussing an issue that I have recently contemplated extensively
on and have also come across on news. The issue concerns remixing of old
classic songs by new singers in a less classy way (obviously, offensive to
the original singers/musicians), specially without permission. I would be
interested in learning about the views of various participants of the list
on whether this remixing is illegal in some other way than copying without
permission and whether the common law on copyright has a cause of action for
such distorting adoption of a classic song ? I am not aware of such
adoptions in the US or Europe, but in the region of south asia, including
India and Pakistan, such adoptions are very frequent and little can
copyright owners do about such adoptions in these countries. I must admit
that music rights on the whole are weak in these countries, specially
Pakistan, but copyright laws do exist. This generates another question that
if a provision is to be incorporated into the law of copyright to prevent
such adoptions, what should be the wording/phrasing of such provision ?
Safdar
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