From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #145 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 Monday, April 22 2002 Volume 02 : Number 145 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] anyone up for a chat? [jenny grover ] [loud-fans] chat-tastica ["amy b. lewis" ] Re: [loud-fans] Pathetic, Pedantic Turbochains [Steve Holtebeck Subject: [loud-fans] anyone up for a chat? I'm sitting all by my lonesome right now in dal.net #loudfans and will be for a little while, anyway. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:36:24 -0400 From: "amy b. lewis" Subject: [loud-fans] chat-tastica come join me and michael mitton in irc.dal.net . . . if you dare! - - aimless ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:07:24 -0700 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Pathetic, Pedantic Turbochains John Sharples wrote: > 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. Is there any special permission needed to do Weird Al-type song parodies? There was another infamous bit in the seventies where Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant used his industry muscle to stop the release of "Stairway to Gilligan's Isle" by Roger and the Goosebumps. That should've been perfectly legal, as long as Little Roger & Co. paid their song royalties! Steve ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #145 *******************************