Re: A Yiddish World Remembered

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Fred Blumenthal" <xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: A Yiddish World Remembered


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> By the way, does anyone on the list know if any contemporary or recent
> klezmer music was used on the soundtrack for this program? I ask partly
> because a friend and I were actually hired (for a token amount) by the
> producer to play a couple of minutes of music for the opening sequence.
> However, that was before the producer got permission to use the original
> Abe & Sylvia Schwartz recording, which is what he'd wanted all along. Oh,
> well... (I still am fuzzy on why someone would need to get permission to
> use a recording which should be public domain by now, according to an
> intellectual-property lawyer I know, but that's another subject.)
>
> - Sandra

Since you were paid, the recording is a "work for hire", and the copyright
belongs to the producer.  That assumes that you didn't have a contract that
says otherwise.

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