From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #144 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, April 21 2002 Volume 02 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Pathetic, Pedantic Turbochains ["John Sharples" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Pathetic, Pedantic Turbochains >>I'm curious about the infamous bit in the sixties wherein Leonard >>Bernstein supposedly prevented U.S. release of The Nice's version of his >>"America" (from _West Side Story_): it would seem that he couldn't have >>truly prevented such release, only applied enough pressure on the record >>company that they were cowed. Or bull-ied. At any rate, he outfoxed them. > > >Right, or the story where Michael Jackson prevented the Beastie Boys from >releasing their cover of "I'm Down," and even threatened to sue an LA >station for playing a leaked tape of that track. Jeff made the point that there are all kinds of extracurricular strong-arm pressure someone with industry muscle can exert to choke off a cover -- and certainly if said cover contains any samples of an actual recording, the permission of the recording's owner is required -- but as far as the black-letter law is concerned, it's open season on covers. And that's not a loophole or a hopelessly fuzzy doctrine like fair use, it's more like a bedrock of American copyright law. JS ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #144 *******************************