Re: [ARSCLIST] ^ Letter on British Copyright Term Extension

[Jack Palmer <vdalhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   But he usually doesn't own the rights to the recordings that are being 
sold and resold all over the world.  His performance was paid for and unless 
he signed a contract giving him  royalties for his performance he never gets 
another dime.   Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Olhsson" <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] ^ Letter on British Copyright Term Extension


> Steven C. Barr wrote:
> > First, the concept of
> > unlimited copyrights only begins to make sense if EVERY artist (including
> > past artists) owns the copyrights to his/her/its music
>
> EVERY artist DOES own the copyright to his/her music unless they decided 
> that it was worth their while to sell the rights to somebody else.
>
> For the life of me I don't understand why people seem to think this isn't 
> the case.
>
> --
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