Re: Needletime / Pay for Play

On Fri, Jul 30, 1999, Paul Geller <pgeller[_at_]law.usc.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Jeroen Hellingman <jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Paul Geller <pgeller[_at_]law.usc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Beethoven cannot assert his rights any more,
> >
> > [snip]
> > Beethoven has no rights anymore,
> > [snip]
> > 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.
>
> Indeed! Beethoven could not assert his rights the moment he died.
> In France, moral rights are "perpetual" -- in theory, if not practice.
> And the English have "Peter Pan" ...

I don't believe that, the heirs of Victor Hugo (1802-1885) had severe objections against the Disney version of the Hunchback of the Notre Dame, but I didn't hear they were able to stop the release of the movie in France. In Holland, the "moral" rights last as long as the copyright, but the author has to appoint somebody to assert them...

Jeroen

Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> Received on Fri Jul 30 1999 - 15:55:29 GMT