Comments on: Songwriters Have a Bill of Rights http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2008/04/songwriters_have_a_bill_of_rights/ Copyright Information Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2008/04/songwriters_have_a_bill_of_rights/#comment-20 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-20 <p>Spectacularly inaccurate. The Copyright Act doesn't give an exlusive right to the "use" of a song or anything else - only a limited right to reproduce, distribute, adapt, or publicly perform. That makes ASCAP's #1 and #2 wrong. Nothing in the law gives a copyright holder the right to "all associated profits" either - movie producers are NOT entitled to a percentage of the theaters' popcorn sales. That takes care of #6. #5 completely ignores fair use, first sale, and other limitations on copyright. </p><p>But I'm sure a copyright expert like yourself knows all this. </p> Spectacularly inaccurate. The Copyright Act doesn't give an exlusive right to the "use" of a song or anything else – only a limited right to reproduce, distribute, adapt, or publicly perform. That makes ASCAP's #1 and #2 wrong. Nothing in the law gives a copyright holder the right to "all associated profits" either – movie producers are NOT entitled to a percentage of the theaters' popcorn sales. That takes care of #6. #5 completely ignores fair use, first sale, and other limitations on copyright.

But I'm sure a copyright expert like yourself knows all this.

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