R: R: [Rumori] Beatallica update

[Praemedia]

There are no 'moral rights' in copyright law in the
US, though the 'moral rights' laws in European
copyright law are rather interesting. I'm pretty
convinced they create a big mess, but it is a very
different take on the rights of the writer (of music
only) than we have in the U.S.

--- Nicola Battista <djbatman at olografix.org> wrote:
> in Italy and other european countries we have a
> strong division between
> economic and "moral" rights when talking about
> authors' rights.
> Moral rights cannot be sold to anyone, while you can
> always give away
> for free copies of your work and renounce to any
> economic right, or you
> can license, even sell 100% of your rights to
> someone else. But still we
> are talking only of monetary rights, not moral
> rights such as the right
> to modify the original work, paternity, the use of a
> pseudonym or
> publishing the work as an "anonymous" work.
> Now I am not sure whether or not this clearly exists
> in US law; I
> remember an electronic version of Beatles snogs with
> loads of samples
> from other artists blocked in 1990 here in Italy
> apparently under
> requests from some Beatles members; and also Oasis,
> in UK, while
> allowing a lounge cover of "Wonderwall" by Mike
> Flowers Pops, denied
> permission for a reggae cover of the same title, if
> I'm not wrong.
> Now this type of stuff - at least in Italy - is
> allowed only to authors;
> a publisher shouldn't allowed to say "you cannot do
> trash metal covers
> of Beatles" just because a publisher should have no
> title over moral
> rights. Is there anything like this in the American
> system?
> 
> Kembrew, I remember that thing about Guthrie... but
> if I'm not wrong,
> TRO is also the publisher who basically stole
> Solomon Linda's copyright
> in "Mbube" when publishing "Wimoweh" that later
> became "The lion sleeps
> tonight"). So maybe TRO is not the best example out
> there. ;)
> 
> DjB
> 
> 
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