Re: [microsound] copyright -- microsound --

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> This would have to be a rockband without a label nor a single recording.
>> Otherwise they are in the same boat.
>> 
>>  
>> 
> No, that's different.  A rock band may give up the performance rights to
> his/her recordings (for radio or club play) to the label, actual live
> performance isn't going to be a problem as most bands write their own
> material.


The Dutch example posted here refutes this. The rights (and often full
rights) are simply, and often, owned by the labels (and their management
companies). Under the DMCA this all gets much more complicated (& yes, the
DMCA has already started effecting other areas of copyright legislation,
both inside and outside of the US).

If future copyright protection and legislation continues, we are going to
end up in a nasty place indeed--and by 'we' I mean all producers of
creativity, whether they be DJs, bands, writers, musicians, actors,
playwrights, etc. Everything will be owned. Of course the cracks in the
system will be enormous, but I think Shaviro has got it right when he
utilises distopyian sci-fi to generate ways of mapping our current dilemmas.


As for microsound -- this is interesting as I gather the term dates back in
its technical elaboration to Xenakis and Roads, later Schaeffer and Truax
and so on. It would be nonetheless interesting to slap a Creative Commons
license on the mailing list. This would defer any ideas produced here from
being utilised for profit and would encourage thoughtsharing. Of course it
would also be handy to actual have proper archives of this list .. I wonder
what that would take. It would be quite a reference database and perhaps cut
down on some of the inanity.


tV


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