'work for hire' is the operative phrase here.
isn't work without pay slavery? it's understood that you don't get
royalties, it's not your 'property', but i assume nettwerk will get some
kind of fiscal gain from this release?
are delerium [or their representatives] that special that they assume
everyone else will serve their ego?
i see that nettwerk have a back catalogue that houses a lot of eighties
artists like tackhead, skinny puppy and severed heads, what happened?
and let's face it, this track needs a remix, granted bill leeb and rhys
fulber have made some interesting music in their time, but this just sounds
like Middle Of the Road america with vocoder style vocals to make it
tragically hip.
dear nettwerk, take your suits elsewhere. DIY has been going strong for a
long time now...you're not needed.
Morrissey
From: Kent williams <kent@avalon.net>
Subject: Re: [idm] Delerium "After All" Remix Contest
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:30:29 -0600 (CST)
'This is totally standard language. You don't like it, don't do it.
Same thing applies to all the remix contests at acidplanet.com.
If you are contracted to do a remix for a label, it's work for hire --
you don't derive any continuing royalties. You sign a similar contract in
that case. And if the label doesn't like the remix, then you still get paid
but no one ever hears it.
The only thing that sucks about this is that all the remixes that don't
make the cut are buried -- they aren't releasable by anybody else.
But there really isn't anything to do about it -- if an artist says 'hey
lets
have fans do remixes' then an agreement like this is what gets pooped out
of the label's lawyers'.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, concrete cookie wrote:
quoted 5 lines this kindA sucks tho no?:
>this kindA sucks tho no?:
>
>"All entrants to the Contest acknowledge that Nettwerk Productions will own
>all results and proceeds including copyright in and to the entrant's remix
>submitted hereunder.
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