Re: Needletime / Pay for Play

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Bradley Silver <bradleys[_at_]wwb.co.za> wrote:
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> Some may regard this as unfair, and indeed there is an element of
> unfairness. But in correcting this, do we sacrifice the fundamental
> legal basis of intellectual property? I know I sound like a typical
> lawyer here. But it has yet to be explained to me how we grant
> performers a property right in their performance without creating
> a legal category for what right is actually being protected.
> Performers rights and copyright are quite distinct.

In my, lay, opinion it would be fairly simple. Performers create a derivative work, of which they can be considered the author, so, I would just see their rights as just another copyright (next to the playwright's, etc. copyrights), and the whole issue of neighbouring rights as an unneccessary complication, grown because of the way copyrights have grown historically, and may very well be pruned.

Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> Received on Fri Jul 30 1999 - 15:59:41 GMT