From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #62 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Sunday, March 4 2001 Volume 03 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OV: "works for hire" ["Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: Re: OV: "works for hire" Darren Holmquist wrote: > Speaking of decisions... I think this is more important than the whole > Napster fiasco, IMHO... > > According to revised law, a "work for hire" is considered the property of > the employer for whom it is created and not of the creator. That means that > copyrights to musical works would now belong to the record companies for > which they're made, instead of to the recording artists who make them. Doesn't that just suck mud big time?! There was a similar rule for artist's reproductions awhile back, where the rights to the prints stayed with the bozos who actually printed them instead of the artist who created the image. I don't know what these bureaucrats are thinking sometimes. > "To legislate that the record label should be recognized and credited as > the 'author' of the sound recording undermines the framers' intent of the > Constitution and goes against my good Midwestern common sense," said Crow > in her testimony. "I am the author and creator of my work. Tell 'em babe. > "Mr. Henley, if you are within the sound of my voice," Coble wrote, "I hope > you get carpal tunnel syndrome from counting all the money you make > compliments of the Copyright Act and the Congress which wrote it." Now now, that's not nice. Thanks Darren; I had no idea this kind of thing was going on. TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:15:30 EST From: Ladywiz@aol.com Subject: Re: OV: creative celery What would we poor under-informed statesiders do without you, Jane??? Thanks for the 'splaining. Teresa #14 RUN, RON, RUN! ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #62 *********************************