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Topic: Copyright Question for Legal Ninjas.
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| testing123 | Posted – 6/1/2008 6:04:55 PM | show profile | email poster in 1978, a rock concert was filmed by employees of the owner of a small club in Los Angeles. The club is long gone. The owner is alive, and today works in concert promotion and production, as then. The artist and his band and management knew the show was being filmed, as all acts performing there in the seventies were. The artist was rather big then, and today, is huge. The film of the show was never commercially released by the artist or owner. A film of the entire show/concert (a pirated/bootlegged/hijacked/leaked/stolen version) HAS been circulating for thirty years, first on VHS and beta tapes, then on DVDs and the internet. Thousands of people own this. More than that have viewed it in entirety, or in snippets, online. Who owns the copyright? The artist and/or management or the club owner - OR - does no one? |
| Louisewasnothalfbad | Posted – 6/4/2008 1:10:00 PM | show profile If the artist didn't sign a release, nothing else matters. That he or she knew that they were being filmed isn't the issue. The rights to songs or music performed are divided up between the songwriter and the performer. The performer retains the rights to the performance. Club owner has no rights. |
