Owning music
27 12 2008Since the subject of copyright and the conversion of music into an ownable commodity is very relevant to the story of “SJI” — having come up most recently in one of the entries in the ongoing Q&A with I Went Down To St. James Infirmary author Robert W. Harwood — I thought it was worth mentioning this:
Soup Greens points out the travails of indie movie Sita Sings The Blues. Apparently the filmmaker used some 1920s recordings on the soundtrack. While the recordings are in the public domain, the compositions are not.
The content in this post was found at The content in this post was found at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/french-3-strikes-law-suffers-shocking-defeat.ars and was not authored by the moderators of freeforafee.com. Clicking the title link will take you to the source of the post. and was not authored by the moderators of freeforafee.com. Clicking the title link will take you to the source of the post.
