> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Steven Black <blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:
> > Copyright is the law. While I disagree with how it has been manipulated
> > by XXXXXX and the like to protect their commercial franchises, I most
> > certainly do not disagree with the principles behind Copyright.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> Out of curiosity, which principles are those?
>
The company that I work for during the day, which used to own a drum
and bugle corps, received a take down notice from the previously
mentioned company for having the corps performance of a popular movie
tune about a wooden boy on their website. It had been on there for
years, but they just found it like a few months ago. Even though the
song was performed by the group that the company owned and they had
previously it had been ok to perform and record it, things had somehow
changed and the fact that the song is 70 years old now doesn't really
matter. What is dumb is that in the drum and bugle corps world, a corps
playing a certain piece of music usually leads to people buying more of
the original recording and finding out about the music. Duh!
Companies also really like to send out cease and disist letters in the
hopes that you'll crap your pants and do what they say, regardless of
whether they have the right to do so or not. Witness:
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2003/04/25/strawberry-shortcake-and-penny-arcade/
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