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Re: OT - Sony owns Bach??

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-09-08 22:59

This is absurd sounding, of course, because, though SONY may have rights over use of its own recordings, it doesn't own the rights to the music. SONY can only protect the specific performances on those recordings it owns.

There *has to be* more to this than than the little blurb in boing boing includes. James Rhodes is (even if not a household name) apparently an established concert pianist. He may have made this recording under SONY's auspices or SONY may have bought the rights to the recording from whoever owned it originally. Cory Doctorow doesn't really say.

If it's the case that SONY and other record producers can identify their own protected recordings with AI algorithms, then people who post them will have to beware. And performers who make recordings will need to consider protecting their own interests when they sign recording contracts. If the algorithm is faulty, then that's a whole other issue. But claiming ownership of the music itself seems silly if true or an exaggeration on Doctorow's part.

Karl

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