intellectual property info

[Alec Ramsdell]

At the risk of violating the author's putative
intellectual property rights, here's something
regarding the Beastie Boys/James Newton post from
another list.  I post it here to help clarify the
issue for those interested.

Alec


> Again, people are totally missing the point of this
> case.  The 
> Beastie Boys got rights to the sample of the
> RECORDING of 
> Newton's piece.  They did not get rights to use the
> COMPOSITION.  
> Is 5 seconds of multiphonics or whatnot a
> composition?  This is 
> the only issue in this case.  
> 
> For further much more interesting reading than my
> post, see:
> 
> Donald McGraith "Anti-Copyright and Cassette
> Culture"
> <http://www.elbehnon.de/themen/coher/c1urheb.htm>
> 
> or Negativland's good collection of Intellectual
> Property resources
> <http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html>
> 
> -Woody
> 
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