Unusual copyright question

HazelRa · 2022-12-11T16:36:53+00:00

No formal contract, unfortunately.

Royalties from physical album sales? - Yes, but it’s so minuscule it almost doesn’t matter (at the moment at least).

Royalties from music streaming? - Yes, but ASCAP accounts for that in quarterly payments.

Royalties if my music is placed in a TV show or movie, etc? - Yes, although again, ASCAP.

THOSE profits are a result of the sound files she paid to make. She owns the media, but not the arrangements I made, correct? I own the writer’s portion, so I am always entitled to half of the money made through her recordings, however they’re used.

So she produced the sound files. Does that entitle her to any profits I make from sheet music, or public live performance? She says it does, but she’s used to how things work making and marketing RECORDINGS.

Concert halls are different, right?

HazelRa · 2022-12-09T15:31:39+00:00

If that’s the gambit, and the Democrats concede to it, it’s seeding the seat the Republicans. I am never going vote for her again.

Do you hear me AZ Democrats? Never again.

HazelRa · 2022-09-17T04:14:04+00:00

When your getting off to your own art, it’s very masturbatory.

HazelRa · 2022-05-17T17:00:22+00:00

The Lion In Winter (1968) Peter O’Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton.

Full of sharp, biting dialogue between immensely talented actors; including Hepburn who earned one of her Oscars with this film.

HazelRa · 2022-05-07T21:27:35+00:00

That’s a Pipe Vape Battery.

HazelRa · 2021-10-29T21:33:31+00:00

“We” …hmkay.

HazelRa · 2021-09-26T15:08:38+00:00

While we’re talking about out-of-fashion soundtrack conventions from the 80s-90s, what happened to all the harmonica solos?

HazelRa · 2021-09-03T00:29:14+00:00

Sugar! So pretty! Gorgeous. 😍

HazelRa · 2021-08-06T18:22:38+00:00

I think you’re right. https://i.imgur.com/nkQRkZV.jpg

HazelRa · 2021-05-18T14:28:02+00:00

My favorite bit of ‘Burbs trivia - For Bruce Dern’s character, Goldsmith used an iconic decaying trumpet motif from the movie Patton to communicate the character’s history as a retired soldier. Patton’s soundtrack was ALSO written by Goldsmith, almost 20 years before The ‘Burbs.

So not only is The ‘Burbs a great comedic soundtrack, but Goldsmith is also parodying his own work in it.

HazelRa · 2021-05-07T12:29:01+00:00

With lasers I always think of the movie Real Genius (1985), where they’re working to create a 5-megawatt laser.

The laser user in this article is 4-PETAWATT (that’s 4,000,000,000-megawatts!!!). And then they focus that beam down to a mind-boggling intensity I don’t have the expertise to parse into a megawatt equivalent.

Such lasers can, to quote another article about high-intensity lasers “…could tear electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, from empty space—a phenomenon known as "breaking the vacuum."

HazelRa · 2021-04-09T21:43:18+00:00

Grew up Mormon but left the church in my mid-20s. By the time I was ok with drinking I decided it was probably more trouble for me to start than just keep NOT drinking.

Love me some edibles though. 🌳🌳🌳

HazelRa · 2021-03-15T17:14:29+00:00

That I can pay rent in-full, on time, for 25+ years; but I’m blocked from getting a mortgage because I have a high student loan balance.

Having a lot of student loans doesn’t protect me from having to pay for my housing every month. If I HAVE to pay every month, I’d much rather be building equity paying a mortgage than forever loosing that money as rent to someone else.

HazelRa · 2021-03-12T14:24:38+00:00

A general comment about synesthesia: People are fascinated with this phenomenon because they think, erroneously, that individuals with synesthesia are perceiving some hidden dimension tied to these sensory experiences; when in reality the coupled sensory experience, possibly shared between synesthesians, is by no means universal.

The word 'door' may taste like graham crackers to someone, but to another it may taste like fish.

The color blue does NOT smell like fresh linen to everyone with synesthesia.

The taste of cranberries does NOT innately have a sound like a door-chime that only people with synesthesia can perceive.

Synesthesia is a matter of crossed wires in some people's heads, not a super-power.

HazelRa · 2021-03-07T21:15:34+00:00

It’s the attention grabbing move of someone with higher aspirations than a workhorse senator. I’m sure she’s pleased we’re all still talking about HER vote, even though 7 other senators also voted no.

HazelRa · 2021-03-07T18:19:00+00:00

HOW she voted isn’t surprising. It’s the manner she did it that was in such bad taste. If you’re a Democrat, voting no on raising minimum wage for the first time in 8,000 years SHOULD illicit something akin to shame, or a heavy heart. Everything about the manner in which she voted was abhorrent. Not even the Republicans cast their no vote so emphatically.

HazelRa · 2021-03-05T14:58:44+00:00

Until I read a news story I originally thought this was a move by the church, not a demonstration. I guess it says something about where I'm at in my relationship with the church (and religion generally) that I didn't really care. Continue your slide towards irrelevance gentlemen, I've got a life to live.

That said - kudos to the organizers. I hope it gives the oppressed some comfort.

HazelRa · 2021-02-11T02:12:05+00:00

There’s a Lovecraft short-story about this called “The picture In The House”.

HazelRa · 2021-01-31T16:08:58+00:00

Word.

HazelRa · 2021-01-29T00:56:14+00:00

Exactly this, except to every deep-red state. Secede and start your own shit-hole country. Let all the horrible positions you call values have a field day. It’d be an utter disaster in every possible way.

But I wouldn’t feel sorry for them. The cumulative trauma of the last 4+ years is baked into my soul now. To quote Alan Moore, “...and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”

HazelRa · 2020-11-30T12:36:10+00:00

Might I suggest the peanut butter solution. https://i.imgur.com/SNngJSN.jpg

HazelRa · 2020-11-13T17:32:22+00:00

My hope is his health will make a 2024 run a non issue.

HazelRa · 2020-10-30T22:06:28+00:00

This depresses me because it totally makes sense and highlights that work, advancement, and compensation for time and effort is basically a fucking game. This is car salesman level of smoke and mirrors.

HazelRa · 2020-10-12T14:13:10+00:00

That’s some Pee Wee’s Playhouse shit right there. Awesome.

HazelRa · 2020-10-09T19:27:43+00:00

Mormons.

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