Subject: RE: Youtube removes videos'copyright issues'
From: Howard Jones - PM
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 02:31 PM

..."as you would own the copyright in your own performance" ...

this is an interesting one, and I would like to see Richard Bridge come in here and make an authoritative pronouncement.

If a professional entertainer is filmed without permission singing a traditional song, and is less than pleased with the subsequent filmed performance on YouTube , does he /she have the right to have the recording withdrawn on copyright issues?

If that is in fact the case, can we then assume that the papparazzi are infringing copyright by photographing celebrites and publishing their pictures in the paper without their permission ?

And Yorgos, you didn't include the ending to your analogy, which is that the people who took the bread told all their friends, "hey, that place sells great bread, you need to get some for yourself even if you have to pay for it".

Not that I am suggesting that it was morally right to take the bread in the first place, but sometimes, in the real world, one has to be pragmatic about these things.