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Re:Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playi... by satyrnein on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:30PM (#25400814)
Yes, to clarify, I meant if he owns the composition. It's possible a publisher owns or co-owns it, even if he wrote it (but unlikely that a label would).
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Re:Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playi... by Blikkentrekker on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:48PM (#25401007)
Surely it would be expected of a band of Dragonforce's size that the label would own the rights and not the members?
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Re:Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist Herman Li for playi... by satyrnein on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:02PM (#25401682)
Labels typically own the rights to the recordings, not the compositions. If the band wrote their own composition, they either retain the rights to them or they may have sold them (partially or in full) to another party, typically a publisher.
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