That is a fucking awesome idea! I would totally pay £30+ for my own commissioned piece of music. It would be like having sex with a prostitute, but clean, pure, all mine (and something I could go back to whenever I felt like it). A moment in time and space - just me and my headphones.
a) Fantastic idea. Good luck with it! b) "intrinsic cultural value" - has anyone actually believed in that for decades? I thought it went out with the divine right of kings...
I was amused by the juxtaposition of your assertion that you don't work for me and then an offer to work for me, naturally, I regard you as an old media dinosaur... still I'm actually intrigued. Could you be more specific about the licence agreement? Your assertion of the non transferability of intellectual copyright confuses me. If I bought a track would I be able to specify its release under a remix friendly sharealike copyleft agreement?
'I was amused by the juxtaposition of your assertion that you don't work for me and then an offer to work for me'
thats just there to scare away the people who want me to write songs which sound like combichrist.
also naturally, because the mechanical rights to the song rest with two parties and because i dont really care, the client can specify the licence, i generally put stuff out under three clause BSD. intellectual copyright != intellectual property. Intellectual copyright is essentially my right to be described as the creater of the work, which is a fundimental law of britian and cannot be transferred. So you cannot say that 'you wrote the track' lawfully, not that it matters.
Are you sure that your right to be described as creator of a work cannot be transferred -- it can in most fields. [I am interested in general question rather than the specifics of your works here.]
From which: "Normally the individual or collective who authored the work will exclusively own the work. However, if a work is produced as part of employment then it will normally belong to the person/company who hired the individual." I'm guessing this is the sort of law used for, say, a ghostwritten book.
Its a group composition - the copyright rests with the group, as in the case of copyrights of band written material lennin vs mccartney for example. (damn those bolchivics)
Does this only work for all-new compositions, or can I commission you do do an EBM-alike instrumental cover of an existing pop track for me to then get vocals added to? Got a few comedy tracks I'd like to put together which wouldn't really go with my band's direction, but which Laura and I don't really have the time to put together ourselves, given the tracks we're already working on.
PS: Anyone who rates the Saint Seans "Organ" symphony doth rock in my book! I once walked into Liverpool Cathedral (the real one, not the concrete tent) just as the best bits came blasting out of the main organ - stupendous!
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It's such a fantastic business idea. :D
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b) "intrinsic cultural value" - has anyone actually believed in that for decades? I thought it went out with the divine right of kings...
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b) stfu nub.
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unless your 'dave the child abuse advocate' then i invoke the fuck-off clause :P
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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thats just there to scare away the people who want me to write songs which sound like combichrist.
also naturally, because the mechanical rights to the song rest with two parties and because i dont really care, the client can specify the licence, i generally put stuff out under three clause BSD.
intellectual copyright != intellectual property. Intellectual copyright is essentially my right to be described as the creater of the work, which is a fundimental law of britian and cannot be transferred. So you cannot say that 'you wrote the track' lawfully, not that it matters.
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http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law
From which: "Normally the individual or collective who authored the work will exclusively own the work. However, if a work is produced as part of employment then it will normally belong to the person/company who hired the individual." I'm guessing this is the sort of law used for, say, a ghostwritten book.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter#Music (but of course that's US law for the most part).
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Does this only work for all-new compositions, or can I commission you do do an EBM-alike instrumental cover of an existing pop track for me to then get vocals added to? Got a few comedy tracks I'd like to put together which wouldn't really go with my band's direction, but which Laura and I don't really have the time to put together ourselves, given the tracks we're already working on.
PS: Anyone who rates the Saint Seans "Organ" symphony doth rock in my book! I once walked into Liverpool Cathedral (the real one, not the concrete tent) just as the best bits came blasting out of the main organ - stupendous!
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