Lovejunky said:

Tyka seriuosly thinks she is doing the right thing...

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She needs to be educated on copyright in general and on the specific Prince situation, also w.r.t. promotion and such.

kaine said:

I tend to think there is a small group of people trying to organize an international business enterprise, and these people have a very small window in which to get it all together, if you know what I mean. IMO the tribute concert is a mistake. They need a year to sort things out. Yes, the tax bill is looming - thank you, Prince, for no will or trust document - but it feels like they are uncoordinated because they honestly don't know the extent of what they've got to do.

1Sasha said:

rogifan said:

Our IG account for our music studio was shut down for 3 CI strikes and none of them had actual Prince music, video or likeness. On my copy infringment notices, the email was reported as npgrecords2@gmail.com (which seemed fishy to me - why doesn't NPG have their own domain??? I suspeceted it was some college intern simply working youtube, IG, facebook, etc all day looking for anything Prince related and copyright infringing them or some whacked out fan trying to "Keep Prince safe from all the evil people trying to use him" - yeah, there's a few of you on here)

Strike 1 - I transcribed the solo section of "I wish u heaven" and recorded the 3 guitar parts over a drum loop in garage band and videod the tracks playing on my Mac. This pissed me off because Dweezil Zappa had liked the video and I was sooooooo happy and showing everyone that MrDweezilZappa gave us a like.

Strike 2 - Played the solo to "the question of u". No song, just my guitar and a metronome click. When that CI came through, I was hot! Becuase you know, I'm just a fan boy learning his tunes because I have an itch to play them for fun.

Strike 3 - I was pissed now, so I recorded the turn around from "Peach" and when I hit the final power chord, I played it like Eric Clapton does, with my middle finger held up high and I flipped the camera off and typed something snarky like "Try to copyright a blues turn around NPG. If you do, a few thousand musicians are going to have something to say about Prince playing their turn around". Boom! third strike and IG closed our studio account.

What did I learn? Post the same videos, just don't hashtag Prince or the name of the song. Which kinda defeats the purpose of sharing with other fans. So now, I play a solo or a bass line I say something like "Check out this cool solo in B minor" or "Playing a funky bassline this morning to warm up". Sad.

One of my friends was painting a portrait in a video posted to FB. Music was playing in the background. FB pulled her video because of the background music. It is crazy out there now.

Elvis passed in 1977. Youtube is full of Elvis videos. The videos have not hurt his museum or sales of his merchandise at all. He gets new followers all the time. My grandchildren like Elvis and they had not even been thought of when Elvis walked on this earth. Having Youtube flooded with Elvis more than keeps his memory alive!

Andy Gibb is another favorite from years gone by. He passed in 1988 - only 30 years old. He also gets new followers. Not as many as Elvis, but the videos have kept his memory alive also.

Prince's family should be careful. Having Prince on Youtube could only be a good thing!!

Misty48 said:

Elvis passed in 1977. Youtube is full of Elvis videos. The videos have not hurt his museum or sales of his merchandise at all. He gets new followers all the time. My grandchildren like Elvis and they had not even been thought of when Elvis walked on this earth. Having Youtube flooded with Elvis more than keeps his memory alive!

Andy Gibb is another favorite from years gone by. He passed in 1988 - only 30 years old. He also gets new followers. Not as many as Elvis, but the videos have kept his memory alive also.

Prince's family should be careful. Having Prince on Youtube could only be a good thing!!

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Misunderstanding copyright because of the $$$...

1Sasha said:

I tend to think there is a small group of people trying to organize an international business enterprise, and these people have a very small window in which to get it all together, if you know what I mean. IMO the tribute concert is a mistake. They need a year to sort things out. Yes, the tax bill is looming - thank you, Prince, for no will or trust document - but it feels like they are uncoordinated because they honestly don't know the extent of what they've got to do.

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Oh come opn, can we stop with this nonsense that the concert will fund the tax bill? The taxes will be dozens of millions, at least. There is NO WAY one single concert will pay for that.

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That tax bill will be paid by the deal they'll make with Warners of whomever WRT future releases.

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BartVanHemelen said:

That tax bill will be paid by the deal they'll make with Warners of whomever WRT future releases.

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Exactkly.

But what entity will pay ~USD 150 million for a stack of tapes and some real estate?

Then the entity could promise a percentage of the new sales to the heirs.

I.e.: the heirs get NOTHING at first, just get their taxbills paid.

Then later, when there are sales, they get some $.

Will the heirs accept such a situation?

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Or what creative alternative will they think of?