Tesla Coil wrote:
>
> On 20 May 1999 Paul Winkler wrote:
>
> > I just thought of something else. Usually on recordings, there
> > are _two_ kinds of copyright. There's the "performance" rights,
> > meaning the rights to the sonic recording captured on the record.
> > Then there's the "publishing" rights, meaning the rights to the
> > lyrics, chords, rhythms, etc. that make up the song.
>
> That raises another puzzle I've considered. I don't know on what
> terms one records a cover version of a song with reserved rights,
> but what of freeing one's performance, GPL or otherwise? Once
> you've obtained permission to record a song, is your recording of
> it yours enough that you can liberate your rights to the performance
> proper? If you agreed that the publisher will receive royalties from
> sales of your performance, can you distribute it noncommercially,
> result being that royalties are a percentage of zero?
That does it, we gotta get a lawyer in here!
Continuing my hobby of not being a lawyer, but playing someone who
pretends to be one on TV:
If you copylefted a recorded cover tune: Then people could play your
cover on the radio without paying you performance royalties -- but they
would still be responsible for paying the publisher for the songwriting
royalties. I think.
As for whether it is legal to copyleft a recording of a cover tune, that
hinges on the relationship between the publishing rights and the
performing rights, and I don't understand that very well.
In fact, I have no idea what the )@%*%)* I'm talking about.
--PW
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