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Hi! I'm Lisa. I work in TV and film as writer, producer & editor. This is my blog about the work I do and the news, trends and technologies that touch it. With the occasional totally unrelated bits thrown in.
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“Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our… song.”
Thom Yorke of Radiohead speaking to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS about Prince, who covered “Creep” at Coachella and then sent cease-and-desists to YouTube claiming users who’d posted videos of the performance were violating copyright. Except Radiohead owns the copyright of the song, while Prince owns the copyright of the performance. And ostensibly, the individual YouTubers own the copyright of the video they shot; it wasn’t a TV show or film clip that someone else produced, but footage they captured on their own cameras.
Radiohead and Prince have vastly different approaches to digital distribution. Radiohead released IN RAINBOWS online under a pay-what-you-want model. Prince has shut down his website and sued individual fans for copyright infringement. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out, and whether it has ramifications for other musicians.
