Copyright Insanity: The Need To Get Licenses Just To Demonstrate...

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 07/01/2009 - 16:34

Over at Against Monopoly, Alistair Kelman, points out yet another quirky problem with copyright law .

He's discussing a book by Ron Rosen, who was the attorney for famed composer John Williams in fighting a copyright infringement claim saying that Williams copied a phrase in the score for the movie E.T..

The book is called Music and Copyright, and (according to Kelman) is quite a worthwhile read in thinking about some of the modern legal issues that will be...


 

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