[LINK] We're all copyright criminal s now

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 08:20 AM 21/11/2006, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>> If the song or play that you are performing has been written down then 
>> it is copyrighted.
> 
> 
> Here's a strange case going on re the Ashes cricket. The Fanatics have 
> produced a booklet of their own lyrics to be sung to tunes that EMI 
> (music rights organisation I think) holds the rights to. EMI has taken 
> out an injunction against distribution of the booklets even though NONE 
> of their music is printed in the booklet, just references to the title.
> 
> Straw poll of the Link Institute: who will win?
<snip>
Is the injunction because the book will harm sales of the copyrighted
version?

It is worth noting, that lots of copyrighted music and literature is a
written or translated form of long existing unwritten 'folk" songs and
tales. Should the Greek government demand royalties on behalf of their
citizens every time a greek tragedy or commedy is performed?

I have a hard copy english version of Lystrata by Aristophanes (412bc),
published by Faber copyrighted 1959, 1962 to Dudley Fitts

The previouly mentioned online version is attributed to an anonymous
translater but has a copyright notice on the bottom at
<http://drama.eserver.org/plays/classical/aristophanes/lysistrata.txt>

While the phrase the rule of law is used as some kind of high moral
mantra...it is the laws not the rule that makes it moral or immoral.

M
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Marghanita da Cruz
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