Submission for rec-music-gaffa

[Dan Kozak <dbk@mimsy.umd.edu>]

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From: dbk@mimsy.UUCP (Dan Kozak)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Subject: Re: KopyrighTs
Date: 21 Jun 89 14:28:05 GMT
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Reply-To: dbk@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Dan Kozak)
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>Really-From: henrik@eddie.MIT.EDU (Larry DeLuca @ The Bandykin Server)
>Now, even if, all things considered, she were to decide that she was
>willing to relinquish the copyright on all the unreleased material
>(which may or may not be possible for her to do - it depends on her contract 
>with EMI, who probably gets more than 50% of the publishing income on
>her songs - typical arrangements for new artists get them substantially
>less than that) 

Sorry, I said I wouldn't get involved with this, but this is BS.  No
one has done these kind of publishing deals since the Sixties.  Having
a publisher isn't very important for the self-contained artist, so
there is no reason to give up that much of the publishing rights.  A
quick glance at _Lionheart_ (as an example, it was sitting next to me)
shows that the publisher is Kate Bush Music.  I would doubt that this
is any more than corporate name for Ms. Bush herself, and be willing
to take bets that EMI doesn't own the tiniest piece of it.

This change in the industry shows that sometimes people do learn from
the past rather than repeat it.
-- 
#dan

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