Re: Needletime / Pay for Play

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Paul Geller <pgeller[_at_]law.usc.edu> wrote:
>
> To start, distinguish between (a) the author's right in his or her
> work, (b) the performer's right in his or her performance, and
> (c) the producer's right in its recording. To illustrate, consider
> a Beethoven sonata: Beethoven cannot assert his rights any more,

Small but important correction: Beethoven has no rights anymore, his works are public domain. In light of the ever extending copyright terms, we should avoid talking about rights that do not exist, or some remote heirs may try to assert such rights. (I was already worried about a web site of an English rights organisation, listing addresses of heirs of authors that have been dead over a hundred years, so they could be asked for permissions. It shows what is on their agenda.)

Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> Received on Wed Jul 28 1999 - 16:07:39 GMT