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It is to avoid FUD. It ensures no one can derail the conversation into a debate about what constitutes being ‘affixed to a physical medium’. “But are the tunes
by playpause 7y ago
It is to avoid FUD. It ensures no one can derail the conversation into a debate about what constitutes being ‘affixed to a physical medium’.
“But are the tunes really affixed to the medium?”
“Yes, this hard drive in my hand literally contains a bunch of MP3 files” is a lot stronger than: “Yes, in a way, because this tune-generating script technically constitutes a self-extracting archive, your honour.”
- C1sc0cat 7y agoPresumably musicians/composers using purely electronic tools such as abletron live have no problem asserting copyright already.
- willvarfar 7y agoThe musican has to cut a CD or something phyiscal. https://www.tunecore.com/guides/copyrights-101 https://www.tunecore.com/guides/copyrights-101 the first paragraph is: > For a work to be “copyrightable,” it must be original and fixed in tangible form, such as a sound recording recorded (affixed to) on a CD or a literary work printed (affixed to) on paper.
- sullyj3 7y agois a hard drive not a tangible form? Come to think of it, so is a brain, and everything else capable of storing information. That language is atrocious.
- db48x 7y agoIt made a lot more sense when it was originally written.
- jiofih 7y agoIt’s about “permanence”, not being able to copyright a live performance that wasn’t recorded for example. It just means you need to be able to distribute / replay the recording, and that means using one of the current common audio technologies.