Check out this piece from PlanetSimpson.com entitled ‘Me & Radiohead & The (Necessary?) Evils Of Copyright’:
I have here on my desk a photocopy of a “licence agreement” between my agent and one David C. Olsen, Director/Business Affairs, Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, Florida. This document grants me “the non-exclusive right to print, publish, distribute and sell at [my] sole cost and expense” the lyrics from an attached schedule of “copyrighted musical composition(s).” Namely: the songs “The Bends,” “Idioteque,” and “I Might Be Wrong,” all by Radiohead. The cost of securing these rights was “the sum of THREE HUNDRED FIFTY ($350.00) dollars, payable in US funds,” plus “one (1) gratis copy of any publication in which the composition is utilized.”
Make sure to read the rest though. And haven’t we heard of Mr. Olsen before? [thanks for the link Juliet]
Radiohead news on this day..
- Radiohead to start tour in America – 2007
- Ed O’Brien & Thom Yorke at BBC 6Music – 2007
- Jonny Greenwood score tipped for Oscar – 2007
- Radiohead news in brief – 2006
- Band Aid 20 video download – 2004
- NEW LOOPHOLE MP3′S ONLINE – 2003
- LIMITED EDITION ART PRINTS @ WASTE – 2003
- HOTPRESS REVIEWS 2+2=5 – 2003
