From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 05:34
From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 05:34
One little note about Warp controlling copyrights & lost revenues & so forth: I should share with all of you a bit of the business that goes behind remixes because that's a whole lot of what was on the page: remixes by Autechre of other musicians. When a musician hires you to remix a song, for the most part the general practise is that you get payed a flat fee for the job & the copyright for the song is retained by the original author(s) &/or the record label. After the flat fee that the remixers get, they get nothing else, no matter whether the record sells a trillion copies in Bombay or whether everyone gets it on MP3 & won't buy it. Even though a lot of remixes, especially Ae ones, can sound like totally new songs & probably would be more accurately described as "Autechre songs with samples from this other musician," that's how it usually goes. So not even Warp OR Autechre had the rights to many of those songs. Marc Poirier