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geodeticman.5 · 08-07-2008, 08:14 PM

Tim, WOW man, THAT is the Right Stuff........I've not had dialogue with you so please excuse my lack of knowledge of your work, ( i think I saw you in youtube Lightfoot covers ...yes?) but do you have covers of Lightfoots I could listen to, and more importantly, more of your work to listen to ? That is a powerful song..... the line (if I heard it right..) of telling Laurriannie [sic] that the memory lives on [of her lost loved one] - did I get that right ? Well as I heard it, recently losing a loved one, really sank in...which seems one of the hallmarks of a good song to me, as a layman to song writing - that it reallty sinks in and grabs you by the yngs on something..... sure did....
Rock on man, keep 'em coming and recording..... yes if you have not been in the studio.... your home office their looks like mine down to the black filing cabinet...... you should indeed cut a CD - have you spoken wth Cathy Cowette of this ? Watching/listening to her success in personal, incremental apsirations with a first CD was very gratifying to know watch/see them via corfid and email, then watch them ascend to excellence..... you've got the stuff, man.

~geo Steve

PODUNK - on your well-thought on read of copyright law, I am only curious, I vaguely recall the subject of eminant domain and the public's ownership of a song after x number of years - does that number vary state-to-state as it does in the Boundary law end of *LAND* Surveying - as in someone can petition the courts for an adverse posession of a portion of a contiguous tract to theirs that they fenced in of the adjoining owner, encroaching, thow a few head of cattle on, build a shed, and then they must have satisfied about 7 rigourous criteria (and olddddd colonial times criteria at that - open and notorious, hostile, proof of improvement....continuous and uninterupted, etc etc) ?

But in music - does a song, say "America The Beautiful" become public domain in a state-by-state fashion as does the right to -attempt- adverse posession, with the music laws criteria, after the same x number of years in that state ? Or is it, as I suspect, being a federal registration, fall within the jurisprudence purvue of federal courts and law, and venue ? eg in 21 years Colorado, can someone simply start recording Tim's song capricuously along with ne'ery a worry of recourse ? - steve

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geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: Singing "Gordon Lightfoot" songs ! Tim, WOW man, THAT is the Right Stuff........I've not had dialogue with you so please excuse my lack of knowledge of your work, ( i think I saw you in youtube Lightfoot covers ...yes?) but do you have covers of Lightfoots I could listen to, and more importantly, more of your work to listen to ? That is a powerful song..... the line (if I heard it right..) of telling Laurriannie [sic] that the memory lives on [of her lost loved one] - did I get that right ? Well as I heard it, recently losing a loved one, really sank in...which seems one of the hallmarks of a good song to me, as a layman to song writing - that it reallty sinks in and grabs you by the yngs on something..... sure did.... Rock on man, keep 'em coming and recording..... yes if you have not been in the studio.... your home office their looks like mine down to the black filing cabinet...... you should indeed cut a CD - have you spoken wth Cathy Cowette of this ? Watching/listening to her success in personal, incremental apsirations with a first CD was very gratifying to know watch/see them via corfid and email, then watch them ascend to excellence..... you've got the stuff, man. ~geo Steve PODUNK - on your well-thought on read of copyright law, I am only curious, I vaguely recall the subject of eminant domain and the public's ownership of a song after x number of years - does that number vary state-to-state as it does in the Boundary law end of LAND Surveying - as in someone can petition the courts for an adverse posession of a portion of a contiguous tract to theirs that they fenced in of the adjoining owner, encroaching, thow a few head of cattle on, build a shed, and then they must have satisfied about 7 rigourous criteria (and olddddd colonial times criteria at that - open and notorious, hostile, proof of improvement....continuous and uninterupted, etc etc) ? But in music - does a song, say "America The Beautiful" become public domain in a state-by-state fashion as does the right to -attempt- adverse posession, with the music laws criteria, after the same x number of years in that state ? Or is it, as I suspect, being a federal registration, fall within the jurisprudence purvue of federal courts and law, and venue ? eg in 21 years Colorado, can someone simply start recording Tim's song capricuously along with ne'ery a worry of recourse ? - steve