[okfn-discuss] Contract loopholes for record labels and movie studios? Subverting copyright through medium transformation?

Thu Dec 1 00:58:30 UTC 2011

Thinking subversively, are there standard contracts that studios and labels
use? Have they been leaked somewhere? Are there loopholes that would allow
creators to, while remaining under contract, exercise their own copyright
by declaring their works under free licenses FAL, FL, CC-BY-SA, or
otherwise? Or are are the copyrights generally fully transferred to the
studio/label/whatever?

More practical and subversive, I'm wondering how copyright law holds up
when representing one creative work in another form. For example, what if
you created some software that could encode music in beautiful imagery? It
would no longer be a song, it would be a picture, a piece of art on its
own, but it could be translated back into that song, and used to circumvent
copyright that way, or would that still be illegal?

Yours,
.danny
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