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Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song
Enigma2175 writes "CNN is reporting that videos from the Coachella music festival showing Prince covering Radiohead's 'Creep' have been removed by Prince's label, NPG records. Thom Yorke of Radiohead, when told of Prince's action, said 'Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our... song.' No comment from YouTube or Prince yet. Under the DMCA, YouTube is not required to verify the entity making a request is actually the copyright holder and this seems to be just another example of DMCA abuse." As the article points out, Prince seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Interwebs.
well since you commented on both, you own copyright on mentioning the copyright on the performance of the copyrighted song. I suggest you sue them all for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
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Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Rumor has it Prince invited Youtube and Radiohead over for pancakes to discuss the matter.
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I can see both sides of the issue here.
One on hand, this is an ugly example of DMCA abuse and goes against the wish of even the copy right owner.
One the other hand it's one less Prince recording on the internet.
I'm inclined to side with Prince here since the public welfare outweighs the individual IP.
> As the article points out, Prince seems to have a love-hate relationship with his fans.
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Unless the performance has creative elements which stand on their own, i.e. the arrangement, the guitar solo, the intonations chosen when singing the lyrics, etc. Of course, that would technically be a composer's copyright, but that sounds confusing, so most groups that deal with legal fan-made recordings (i.e. the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive) usually just refer to it as a performance copyright. Basically, what it boils down to is that Prince's performance constitutes a derivative work, and unless Radiohead is now releasing their music under a copyleft, they have no say in the matter. The most they could do is ask the fan to remove the creative elements from the derivative work that Prince owns and release whatever is left, but the result would probably be incomprehensible, assuming that such removal were even possible. (Alternatively, they could try to prove that Prince's additions to his arrangement were too minimal to justify copyright protection, but that's likely to be very difficult.)
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My god. Somebody on slashdot understands copyright. I'm stunned!
Or its current equivalent...34 Euros. (:
Only if you don't have an honest belief that you're Radiohead ;).
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