Michael Cieply, New York Times; Even at a Comics Event, You Can’t Defy Gravitas:
"Topics for panels at this year’s conference at the San Diego Convention Center include comics and the plight of indigenous peoples, feminist writers and censorship, progressive politics in comics and of course the many financial and copyright issues created by the explosion in Hollywood’s interest.
As a certain archvillain might ask: Why so serious?
“It’s frightening,” said Lisa Vizcarra, a science teacher at Carquinez Middle School in Crockett, Calif. Ms. Vizcarra, who seemed to set the day’s tone, was speaking to a Comic-Con audience about a looming pedagogical crisis: Students, distracted by video, are no longer responding to comics as an educational tool, even as schools increasingly use them in their curriculums...
On the opposite end of the sprawling convention hall, at a seminar called “The Comic Book Law School,” Michael L. Lovitz, a copyright lawyer, was hammering away on another serious matter: the ins and outs of work for hire, the employment term that has become a critical legal issue in multimillion-dollar battles over the ownership of characters like Superman and the Fantastic Four."
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
German beer-hall yodel goes to court in Munich; Guardian, 7/23/09
Kate Connolly via Guardian; German beer-hall yodel goes to court in Munich:
"To the uninitiated it sounds rather like a cry for help from an Alpine goatherd who has trapped his hand in a barn door.
In the world of German folk music, however, it amounts to one of the most popular and lucrative refrains in the yodelling repertoire.
The money-spinning power of "horlla-rü-di-ri, di-ri, di-ri", the famous chorus of the Kufsteinlied, which is capable of making even the hardiest of lederhosen-clad Germans go weak at the knees, has been keenly felt this week in a Munich courtroom battle over who owns the copyright.
The heirs of Karl Ganzer, the Austrian composer of the 63-year-old beer-hall hit which is said to be Europe's most-played folk song, were yesterday successful in their attempts to sue the music publisher Egon Frauenberger, who claimed he had written the song's refrain and therefore had a right to a twelfth of the royalties.
The song is a staple of beer festival gatherings such as Munich's Oktoberfest as well as folk music shows which, because of their enduring popularity, are a mainstay of primetime television across the German-speaking world.
Royalties must be paid each time the song is performed in public."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/23/beer-hall-yodel-royalties-munich
"To the uninitiated it sounds rather like a cry for help from an Alpine goatherd who has trapped his hand in a barn door.
In the world of German folk music, however, it amounts to one of the most popular and lucrative refrains in the yodelling repertoire.
The money-spinning power of "horlla-rü-di-ri, di-ri, di-ri", the famous chorus of the Kufsteinlied, which is capable of making even the hardiest of lederhosen-clad Germans go weak at the knees, has been keenly felt this week in a Munich courtroom battle over who owns the copyright.
The heirs of Karl Ganzer, the Austrian composer of the 63-year-old beer-hall hit which is said to be Europe's most-played folk song, were yesterday successful in their attempts to sue the music publisher Egon Frauenberger, who claimed he had written the song's refrain and therefore had a right to a twelfth of the royalties.
The song is a staple of beer festival gatherings such as Munich's Oktoberfest as well as folk music shows which, because of their enduring popularity, are a mainstay of primetime television across the German-speaking world.
Royalties must be paid each time the song is performed in public."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/23/beer-hall-yodel-royalties-munich
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