> OOPS! I didn't read the post closely enough, and skipped the
> parenthetical. You're right, Pat; with some minor exceptions, all of
> copyrights are up for sale.
Spoken like a gentleman.
> > > In the U.S., the performer had no right in the
> > > performance until very recently (when the US signed onto GATT).
> >
> > The Screen Actors' Guild seems to think otherwise.
>
> SAG is wrong, then, unless we're talking about two different things
> somehow. The right to a recorded live performance by the performer (as
> opposed to the author) was not subject to copyright until passage of the
> Uruguay Rounds Agreement Act of 1994.
I stand corrected. I was thinking of actors' contracts, which (now that
I think about it) have nothing to do with copyrights.
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