Recording copyright

Peter Blake did the cover of the [Beatles] Sgt. Pepper’s album, but the only reason that cover is famous is because it was the cover of Sgt.Pepper’s. When Sgt.Pepper’s goes out of copyright in a few years, all the people who played on that, the composers, their rights stop. Peter Blake’s don’t.

Keith Harris quoted in an interview with The Register journalist Andrew Orlowski. Put like this, the man has a point.

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