The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107383   Message #2225832
Posted By: Sandy Mc Lean
31-Dec-07 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: How to kill the record industry...
Subject: RE: How to kill the record industry...
I realize that this is thread drift and I only use it to make a point. Years ago I was involved with a charitable organization that decided to make a cookbook as a fund-raiser. The ladies of the organization contributed their favourite recipes and they typed and prepared the pages. I was asked to arrange for printing which I agreed to do. I submitted the draft to a printing/publishing firm with a request for a quote to have the book made up . We (the organization) would be paying all costs and our expectation would be that the copies would be ours to sell or do with as we pleased. I received back a contract with a lot of fine print,and being a bit of a Philadelphia lawyer, I read it before signing. To my dismay I found that I would be conveying all copyright on the book to them. I wrote back and asked them why they would include this and the answer was that it was standard in the industry. Needless to say that they did not get the printing contract, but I always wondered how many people have had their copyright stolen by fine print?