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Sat, 13 Aug 94 22:21:02 EDT
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Re: Who owns the music?
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djkc@blkbox.com wrote: ***** (C) copyrights written material, such as lyrics in songs, and musical compositions in written form. (P) copyrights the actual recorded song and its sounds...which is good for today's sampling technology. I believe (C) may protect the audio recording in someway, also...some sort of standard overall protection of a musical work. I'm not sure... But, to (P) something, you have to send in the work on an audio-recording medium (cassette) to the copyright office (Library of Congress here in the US, I believe). ***** I don't know..., but it seems more logical to ME that it would be reversed: (P) (Published?) would cover the writer(s), and (C) would cover the recording itself... Just a thought. TKing13