Re: (idm) Autechre / Copyright infringement (fwd)

From thatcat
Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 03:10

On 05/19/98 19:31:57 you wrote:
>Please note that WARP claims to have CONTROL over the phonorecordings as
>well as the underlying compositions.  If so, Sean Booth and Rob Brown have
>little if any legal CONTROL over their creations, whether "offended" or
>not. 
>
>All you composers out there should take this to heart.

most large or medium-size labels own the copyright of the records they release. damn near any record contract you sign will give copyright to the label. warp is better than major labels in this respect, in that they do allow autechre a good deal of, if not total, artistic freedom as well as some control over their tracks. i don't think warp has the ability to sell an ae track to some corporation for a commercial without ae's consent. but they do have the right to sue someone who infringes on the copyright. as for the remixes, though, i would think the copyright would belong to the labels on which the remixes were released (since, as remixes, they generally are still credited as being written by whoever wrote the original track, no matter how little of it is left over). 
btw, how did the unreleased tracks get up there without autechre's consent? if they gave a tape to someone for them to listen to, and that person made the tracks available on the internet, i can see why they'd be offended.





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