OFF: Fun with PhotoShop and Hawkwind's take on intellectual property

[Moonglum .]

Dave Brock was asked a similar question on one of the IRC chats -
specifically about CDR trees.  He said something along the lines of "the
problem is that it deters major labels from offering Hawkwind a record
deal" and that "unfortunately the artist often has to pay to play"

Mission Control does refer the user to sites that offer limited excerpts of
HW tracks, on *.MP3 and *.WAV.  I think you can infer from this that
Hawkwind do not want to see entire songs available for free download, for
the same reason that they can't endorse the trading of CDR's.

I have known the band to want copies of photos/video footage from live gigs
and so far as I know have never had any problem with this.  And I've never
seen or heard anything that suggests any problem with copying of images
(e.g. album covers).  I could be wrong though :-)

Steve

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:34:44 -0700, Guido N. Vacano <nycademon at HOME.COM>
wrote:

<<snip>>

>To make this at least a BIT topical, what's Hawkwind's policy on
>intellectual property, such as MP3s, concert recordings, images, videos,
>etc.?
>
>Guido
>