dhbailey wrote:
It would be curious to do a study on how the literary copyright world
has managed such a different course, whereby the author retains the
copyright and the publisher merely licenses a specific right,
I spent some time in the book section of a store, and examined at
random, about 50 titles of fiction, from random genres and publishers,
and found that the above is not entirely true. About half the titles
were copyright by the author, and the remainder were copyright by the
publisher. The breakdown seemed to be that the more savvy the author
(as measured by the number of titles the author had written) the more
likely it was that the author retained the copyright. The fewer titles
written by the author, the more likely it was that the publishing house
held the copyright.
The same is somewhat true in music, too. Copland, and a couple of other
big name composers whose names escape me at the moment, have retained
their own copyrights for years, because they had the clout to do so.
And I see signs today that print music publishers, in at least some
areas of music, have also adopted the custom of returning disused
copyrights to the composer. I suspect the same thing will happen with
performing artists, given the rise of various online forums for sharing
music and video.
ns
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