OOn 01/02/2012 22:51, howard posner wrote:
On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Stuart Walsh wrote:
So: is it in any way reasonable for a composer to ask/insist that I
put my name on youtube videos? The whole thing sounds so utterly
ridiculous and implausible that there must be some other
explanation. The only obvious thing I can think of is that the
composer is worried that my clunky efforts might be misunderstood as
the composer's. Should I worry about that? (More to the point? Why
are they worrying about that?)
It's his music. He holds the rights to it. Let's assume, without
getting into the details of international copyright law, that he can
prevent your posting a performance of his music altogether (which is
probably true, if you're paying him nothing). If so, he has the de
facto right to impose conditions on your using it.
Thanks Monica and Howard. How extraordinary?
As I understood it, his more or less insistence that I put my name on my
performance of his music was not from a legal perspective at all. My
worry was that it was from sort of moral perspective and that I was
failing to see what that was.
How extraordinary that the millions of posters on youtube, who have
actually bought the music that they play, and earn no money from what
they play, should be paying for for the privilege? Presumably this is an
'in principle' (as it were, 'de jure') concept whereas 'de facto' a
gazillion players - or none at all - play on youtube without payment to
the composer.
Unless we're talking at totally cross purposes (which I suspect we are)
a composer has no de facto rights (he's going to come and beat me up?)
Stuart
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