Whoever designed the radar system you maintained got money from the purchase of those systems by the company you worked for. Regardless of how long ago the system was designed.
I was an engineer on several albums. I don't get any royalties. I consider what I did to be a hell of a lot more than "maintaining", but I don't think I'm owed royalties.
You want to draw an analogy to yourself as an artist, but this model doesen't work. For an artist to have an employer would be basically a patron. Patrons noawadays would be a very, very, very bad idea, IMHO.
Trent Reznor in an interview said he mixed most (possibly all) of The Fragile with 10 hard drives whirring behind his head noisily... when he realized this, he had a coniption, kept it anyways... produced the biggest commercial flop of all time.
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Whoever designed the radar system you maintained got money from the purchase of those systems by the company you worked for. Regardless of how long ago the system was designed.
I was an engineer on several albums. I don't get any royalties. I consider what I did to be a hell of a lot more than "maintaining", but I don't think I'm owed royalties.
You want to draw an analogy to yourself as an artist, but this model doesen't work. For an artist to have an employer would be basically a patron. Patrons noawadays would be a very, very, very bad idea, IMHO.
Trent Reznor in an interview said he mixed most (possibly all) of The Fragile with 10 hard drives whirring behind his head noisily... when he realized this, he had a coniption, kept it anyways... produced the biggest commercial flop of all time.
Moral: use Reel to Reel.