Subj : Re: When everything is digital.. this happens..
To   : August Abolins
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Fri Mar 03 2023 10:39:40

AA>GP> I have over 2,000 vinyl LPs & 50-odd 45s. . . All older/classic. . .
 
AA> About 1200 LPs, and about 500 45s here.
 
And then when you pass, your next of kin will get rid of it in the trash bin.
 
AA> The "booklet" form isn't bad. But the print can be too small.
AA> Some CD covers would "fold out" to a larger size, but it tended
AA> to get annoying to get them back in place.
 
Try that with "Thick as a brick". Or John Lord's "Gemini Suite", I bought thatone just for the cover.
 
AA> I haven't heard too many stories like that.  But I have heard
AA> of artists losing the rights to their own material due to some
AA> small print in their contracts.
 
We've had that discussion many times and the majority of people, nearly all of them that is, do not understand. As an author you cannot sign-away or sell the creative rights of a piece of music, a book, etc... It stays. The main problem here is the weakness of the english language where "copyright" is a multi-faceted thing understood by most of the not educated into the art as having only one meaning ....
 
Way way back in time it was announced that Michael Jackson bought the rights of the Lennon-McCartney portfolio at Northern Music... after that "Yesterday" "She Loves You" "Help" "A hard days night" still mentioned 'Lennon-McCartney'. Michael Jackson was cashing-in on the sale of the music (in english 'copyright', in dutch 'commercial rights") but McCartney and the estate of John Lennon were still cashing-in on the airtime (in english "copyright" still, in dutch "creative rights") ...
 
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