NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso

Subject: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: Mían
Date: 13 Oct 99 - 07:47 PM

Here's the what's new site for the NMPA. Click here

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: Mían
Date: 13 Oct 99 - 08:11 PM

Don't worry, I'm being good. It's look but don't leap...

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: MMario
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 04:00 PM

gee - did anyone else catch the fact that it was HFA that sued the International Lyrics Server -- and they are NOW in their updates saying the ILS will soon be back online - as a subsidiary of HFA! ! ! --

to me this smacks more of crush the competition then of protect the musician. My opinion only, of course....

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: Max
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 04:08 PM

That sickens me.

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: MMario
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 04:12 PM

It doesn't exactly make my day either.

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: lamarca
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 04:21 PM

Here's a link to stuff I posted to the other thread, plus a link to a page on Copyright Law...

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: JedMarum
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 06:00 PM

these bastards have nothingto with protection of publisher rights. they are parasites on the back of artists and music perveyors alike!

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: Gint
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 07:07 PM

In the U.K. we have Performing Rights Association but it smells the same to me

Subject: RE: NMPA National Music Publisher's Asso
From: Penny S.
Date: 17 Oct 99 - 03:50 PM

A couple of weeks back I read an article in the Guardian about music copyright. Actually, it was about the author of a book who had wanted to use lyrics quotes in the narrative. I've tried to track down the article on the web site, but to no avail. I thought at the time that some of its contents needed to be referred to here, but I had no time before the looming inspection. I've looked at the NMPA site, and their contention that it was easy to gain permission to use music and lyrics was distinctly at odds with what the author concerned found. Naively, she had believed that the copyright resided with the creators of the material. The prime example (she was a Kiwi, I think) was a Maori song. This had been written to a Norwegian folk tune, and the Maori words subsequently replaced by English, under the title "Now is the Hour" (sung by Gracie Fields). The copyright to the Norwegian tune, the Maori words, and the English, are all held by an office in London for an Australian company. It's hard to see who this is protecting, and as she wrote "I'd like to see their paperwork".