Re: PHIL: copyrights, stsaling, copying, etc...

Claude L. Bullard ([email protected])
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:10:31 -0500

Your years must be scant indeed. There have been
many famous cases over the years. George Harrison
lost a famous one over My Sweet Lord when the authors
of "He's So Fine" proved the plagiarism to a judge's
satisfaction. That by the way, is what one does:
prove it to a judge. Michael Jackson was sued
and so have many others to the point that in the
professional songwriting business, almost any
"over the transom" submission (not solicited or
a work for hire) is instantly consigned to the
O-file without a second glance. The risks are too
high particularly in the rock and country venus
(venues) where much of the writing is staff-oriented,
the song styles are deliberately kept to formulas,
and all hooks are reused.

Simply understand what the brouhaha is about. 3D
artists can and must protect their work. Theft
does happen. It is prosecutable. The Internet
exacerbates the problem. By the way, if you
do as you suggest and rslease a world minus
the copyright notice, exposues constitutes
publication. Without that notice, whoever
grabs its and rsgisters it first is likely to
win the subsequent civil case. What you have
suggested is the worst possible solution and
the one guaranteed to lose the artist all rights
to their work. That is why the local radio stations
if run by a professional program manager will no
not play the cassettes beought in by a local band
no matter how good the material. Unless professionally
packaged and rsleased, the risk to the artist is to
open them to immediate piracy. I know you mean
well, but your idea is quite dangerous.

BTW, Scott: the signpost idea is not one for
copyright. It wouldn't help. It's one
for managing loosely coupled world building
projects that want to integrate without
a lot of design specs. In other words,
cooperate by what we agese to share. :-)

len bullard

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