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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 718.1 | But you don't open the envelope! | ROSBIF::PHILIPPA | Sleazy Entrepeneur | Tue Oct 24 1989 16:04 | 6 |
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Well you could simply post your material to yourself and as long as
there is a post mark on the envelope then you'll have some form
of proof that you wrote it before anyone else.
Flip
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| 718.2 | | MILKWY::SLABOUNTY | Licking for luv in all the right places. | Tue Oct 24 1989 16:27 | 9 |
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There's info in the MUSIC conference, note 25.
Press KP7 (firmly enough to activate the contacts in the key-
board, but not too hard or you'll break something) to add to
your notebook.
GTI
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| 718.3 | Not a big deal, but know the facts | MARKER::BUCKLEY | I pray the lord, your soul to keep | Tue Oct 24 1989 16:36 | 18 |
| The "poor-man's copyright", as described in .1, is NOT a valid form
of copyright, per order of a 1976 court ruling!
There are two types of copyrights...a "C" and a "P" copyright. The "P"
copyright protects a particular recording of a work...ie -- that
copyright which protects an album or concert from being taped without
authorization. The "C" copyright is the one which copyrights the work
itself. You can obtain copyright forms from the goverment, and it
costs $10/piece. Note: If you have tons of songs, you may want to
register them all under a single title, as in "The Works of Mr. Ed",
and sub-list the works you wrote to fall under that one title.
Technically, a work is copyritten at the point of conception...and the
legalities regarding who wrote what first, should it come down to that,
remains on the sole fact that "does said person who you claimed
violated your copyright to such-n-such-a-piece...did they have any
access to that work to support plagarism?" If not, forget it.
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| 718.4 | | ASAHI::COOPER | No more flame burning in my heart... | Wed Oct 25 1989 10:09 | 8 |
| Buck is right. Poor mans Copyright isn't worth the paper it's written
on. What you do is go to the post office and get yourself a form
SRnnnn (something or other)...
I've got copies of the form if you need some, but they are available
at the post office.
jc
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| 718.5 | publishing rights? | BUSY::JMINVILLE | It's getting better all the time | Fri Oct 27 1989 12:00 | 20 |
| RE: the "P" and the "C" (in the little circles). As wjb mentioned,
the "P" protects the recorded version of the work and the "C" protects
the work itself, but I'm not clear on something...
Does the "C" protect the published work?? In other words, do
you have to submit the music/lyrics in a written form in order to
qualify for the "C" type of copyright??
I spoke to a lawyer briefly about this a few months ago and
he seemed to be saying that you can submit a cassette tape with
a "P" on it (along with the form of course) and that protects you
to some degree, but it doesn't mean that you get the publishing
rights. In order to get rights over the published work, you have
to submit the "written" notation, lyrics, etc.
Buck can you shed some light on this??
What about all those funny-named publishing companies??
joe.
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| 718.6 | | CHEFS::DALLISON | Screaming blues-o-mania | Fri Oct 27 1989 12:10 | 3 |
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P = Publishing rights of material
C = Copying rights of material.
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| 718.7 | | PNO::HEISER | I'm bad...I'm international | Fri Oct 27 1989 13:37 | 2 |
| � = Publishing rights of material
� = Copying rights of material.
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| 718.8 | a few tidbits | BUSY::JMINVILLE | Illegitimus Non Tatum Carborundem | Fri Nov 03 1989 11:42 | 16 |
| Quoted from "Circular 1" Copyright Basics, Copyright Office
Library of Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office 1989 --
241-429/80,045
Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created,
and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phono-
record for the first time.
There are, however, certain definite advantages to registration.
The form of Notice for visually perceptible copies is the letter
C in a circle, or the word "Copyright", or the abbreviation
"Copr."
The form of notice for Phonorecords of sound recordings is the
letter P in a circle.
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| 718.9 | FWIW | CSC32::G_HOUSE | No. 24, the naughty bits | Fri Nov 03 1989 13:14 | 5 |
| There have been some recent modifications to the copyright laws, last
months edition of Electronic Musician magazine had a good article which
discussed this.
Greg
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| 718.10 | old notes rool | CAVLRY::BUCK | | Thu Dec 26 1991 22:54 | 1 |
| Hey JW...check this $#!t out!
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| 718.11 | | MR4DEC::JWHITMAN | No more Tears | Fri Dec 27 1991 12:24 | 3 |
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Thanks man!
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| 718.12 | | BUSY::SLABOUNTY | Don't like my p_n? 1-800-328-7448 | Tue Jan 30 1996 10:33 | 15 |
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From what I've seen of Garth, he's a really nice guy, and a very
good performer [studio is all the experience I have, but I've
heard that he puts on a great live show].
The only problem I have with him, or maybe 2 problems, is that
he was a fan of the "copyright tax" that was going to be levied
on blank cassettes to compensate recording artists for the boot-
leg recording that was going on [people copying CD's for friends].
AND, he is a big opponent of used CD sales and "cut-out" sales,
because a recording artist gets little or no compensation for
these sales.
[I'm going to cross-post this to the copyright note.]
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