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Contest: What are the five copyrights?

by Joel Falconer

A week ago, I conducted a brief survey in a room full of musicians: what are the five copyrights?

Mind you, these aren’t just musicians. These are students of a university degree that is supposed to teach more about studio engineering, production, and the business of art and entertainment than theory and technical proficiency with an instrument.

I got blank stares. I wasn’t surprised, but it is sad to see that musicians don’t really understand something that is more important than anything else to their career. I’ve known musicians who sucked, but knew their copyrights well and exploited them to forge a career.

Only once you know the rules, can you break them, they say. And only when you know the copyrights, can you benefit from them. Your mission: find out what the five copyrights are. If you’re the first person to tell me what they are in the comments, you’ll get one free constructive critique of a set of lyrics.

Research away!


Posted in Artists & Society, Intellectual Property on August 11th, 2007

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