"Homework" assignment for Professor Ramaprasad's class for January 12, 2015

Hello Students of Professor Ramaprasad!

This will be the easiest homework assignment you’ve ever had. Watch the following video. We're only interested in the music playing:



Now watch this one. Again, our only interest is the music:



Now think about the following questions:

1. If you were one of the songwriters of the first song (Roy Orbison and Bill Dees), how would you feel about your song being used like that in the second one? Do you feel like your "rights" (whatever common meaning you take from that term) have been violated somehow?

2. 2 Live Crew sold over 2 million copies of the second song and made a lot of money. As the songwriter of the original, do you feel you are owed a piece of that pie?

That's it! I look forward to speaking with you next Monday.

Allen
M^e Allen Mendelsohn BA, MBA, BCL, LLB, LLM
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p.s. For those of you who have made it this far, read this. Actually, do not read that unless you are a masochist and want to be a copyright lawyer. But it will give you a hint as to what this post was about.