OFF: Procol Harum's copyright case news

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

Tough call.  It's hard to tell, before the track has even escaped the 
mixing process, which bits are going to be seen as integral and 
significant parts of the song 30 years later.  I think the best that can 
be done is get everyone involved to agree something relatively ironclad 
from the outset because otherwise it just leads to these bad-karma court 
cases years later.  And if the people involved are to confused in the 
moment to pay close attention to the technicalities, well, what can you 
do?  That's just Darwin at work, I fear ....

Mercifully, as a highly non-professional musician, I can just slap a 
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license on it and 
forget about it. :)  And hope that in the unlikely event that anyone 
makes a lot of money violating the license, maybe there would be enough 
money at stake for a fancy lawyer to sue them for their ungroovy 
violation and enough left over after paying the fancy lawyer for a beer ;)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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