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

Thu Dec 1 10:54:37 UTC 2011

Hi Danny,

Not sure on this exact topic, but may be worth having a look at this:
http://thepowerofopen.org/ - it's case studies compiled by Creative
Commons about success stories using their licenses. It may not answer
your question in full, but may give you some pointers about who you
could ask in more detail.

Hope that helps,

Lucy

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Danny Piccirillo
<danny.piccirillo at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 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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