XPost: rec.arts.tv, misc.legal, rec.arts.dance   
   From: ws21@cornell.edu   
      
   In article <1134165122.640181.96690@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,   
    cowartmisc1@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > < Simply stated, I own the tapes and all rights to the tapes. You have no   
   > legal claim to the tapes.>>   
   >   
   > Sam - you are probably wrong about this. There are 2 copyright issues -   
   > who owns the copyright to the *work* ("Sound of Sand"), and who owns   
   > the copyright to the *tapes* (copies) of the work. When Ayako Kurakake   
   > created the work, he probably put it into a "fixed form" by writing a   
   > script. That immediately created a copyright to the "work", which   
   > clearly belongs to Ayako Kurakake. Your sales of recordings of a   
   > performance of that work are only legal if all of the copyright owners   
   > authorized them, and even if Ayako Kurakake and the performers *did*   
   > authorize those sales at some point, they can withdraw that   
   > authorization at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all.   
   >   
   > When unauthorized copies of a work are created, they are the property   
   > of the copyright owner, not the person creating the copies, and they   
   > must be surrendered to the copyright owner upon demand.   
   >   
   > Source - http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap11.html   
   >   
   > John Cowart   
   > - I am not a lawyer, not even on Usenet   
      
   And overlooked so far: individuals have a right to their "persons."  You   
   cannot use the images of the actors without their permission, any more   
   than you can put John Wayne into a TV commercial without permission from   
   his estate--even if you own non-copyrighted images of him.   
      
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