Roberto Carlo
Second Unit
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2002
- Messages
- 445
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47321-2002Aug21.html
Here's the lede:
"This is how jazz flutist James Newton found out -- eight years after the fact -- that he was on a popular rap recording: A student strolled into his class and said hey, prof, I didn't know you performed with the Beastie Boys.
Newton wasn't happy. A six-second snippet of his song "Choir" was a featured attraction in the 1992 Beastie Boys hit "Pass the Mic." He says that he's never received any compensation for the band's use of the recording and that the Beastie Boys never bothered to ask his permission.
Finding out that the song had made it onto a "Beavis & Butt-head" cartoon only fueled his ire. Newton, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles, says that if he'd been asked, he never would have granted his permission. So in 2000 he sued the Beastie Boys, charging the group with copyright infringement. And, to his surprise and rage in June, he learned he'd lost the case."
I find this issue interesting. Let me be clear: I'm not defending piracy in any form whatsoever. And I do understand the different legal issues involved in this case as opposed to the Napster and Napster-like cases.
But I do think that cases like this one make the RIAA's protestations about the sanctity of copyright and compensating artists ring more than a bit hollow. It's a selective sort of concern at the very least.
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Here's the lede:
"This is how jazz flutist James Newton found out -- eight years after the fact -- that he was on a popular rap recording: A student strolled into his class and said hey, prof, I didn't know you performed with the Beastie Boys.
Newton wasn't happy. A six-second snippet of his song "Choir" was a featured attraction in the 1992 Beastie Boys hit "Pass the Mic." He says that he's never received any compensation for the band's use of the recording and that the Beastie Boys never bothered to ask his permission.
Finding out that the song had made it onto a "Beavis & Butt-head" cartoon only fueled his ire. Newton, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles, says that if he'd been asked, he never would have granted his permission. So in 2000 he sued the Beastie Boys, charging the group with copyright infringement. And, to his surprise and rage in June, he learned he'd lost the case."
I find this issue interesting. Let me be clear: I'm not defending piracy in any form whatsoever. And I do understand the different legal issues involved in this case as opposed to the Napster and Napster-like cases.
But I do think that cases like this one make the RIAA's protestations about the sanctity of copyright and compensating artists ring more than a bit hollow. It's a selective sort of concern at the very least.
Pause to put on asbestos clothing