intellectual property info

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 10 19:39:41 PDT 2002


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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