I am assuming the copyright has run out on the medieval nursery rhymes - "Ring
Around The Rosey", etc.? lol
You wonder how they figure that accounting. I also think that the movie
studios accounting for piracy is bogus and they are given inflated
losses by the DRM companies anxious to sell them their products. Most
CEOs are tech illiterates anyway.
On 12/30/2013 03:06 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote
"Happy Birthday" is the one everyone gets trapped by, assuming it's so ancient
anyone can use it.
Warner/Chappell Music insists that one cannot sing the "Happy Birthday to You"
lyrics for profit without paying royalties: it's worth about $2 million a year.
Problems with the content industry: if the company is publicly held and
they don't sue the stockholders complain. And if they complain enough
the board members and management teams can lose their jobs. Publicly
held companies and CEOs who won't stand up to the stockholders and tell
them they
Sometimes plagiarism can benefit both parties.
The Doors had to pay royalties to The Kinks after pinching their riff.
The Kinks’ Ray Davies: “The funniest thing was when my publisher came to me on
tour and said The Doors had used the riff for ‘All Day And All Of The Night’
for ‘Hello, I Love Y
---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, wrote:
PS Yay George - He was my favorite Beatle, followed by Ringo, Paul and John,
in that order. I was ten when I bought my first Beatles album, "The Beatles
Second Album" for $2.99, and John had the least friendly face.
Ha! Adorable. And my favo
PS Yay George - He was my favorite Beatle, followed by Ringo, Paul and John, in
that order. I was ten when I bought my first Beatles album, "The Beatles Second
Album" for $2.99, and John had the least friendly face.
Yep - there are only so many song appropriate melodies in the world - one of my
songs was tagged as having the same content as another, but mine came out
first, so the dispute was resolved easily.
I always felt sorry for George Harrison. He wrote a corker when he penned "My
Sweet Lord". A real original. And yet he still got screwed by the courts over
its similarity to the song "He's So Fine". Harrison claimed to have used the
out-of-copyright "Oh Happy Day" (listen to it and see if you do
The song "Maggie" is public domain (even though Jerden slapped I.M.
Flowers on it as author) having been written in the 19th century. So
there is no royalties on it. Accounting took care of any royalties back
in the day of the release of the 45s, LPs and CDs.
On 12/29/2013 03:59 PM, s3raph..
Bhairitu, that reminds me: is whoever wrote the songs for Magic Fern still
getting royalties?
A friend of mine over here who fronted a pub covers band wrote a few original
songs; they were never released commercially but he sent recordings out to all
the local and national radio stations and
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