Do you think sound engineers should get writers credit for the songs they engineer with creators of music? Some of you may agree they should and some of you may agree that they should not. Regardless there is one engineer that thinks he deserves joint authorship of music he has worked on for a very popular rapper. Mahans 84-page complaint, beyond such side tales as the birth of hip-hop from DJ Kool Herc to Afrika Bambaataa, lies the challenging insistence that Mahan, as a creative sound engineer, should be considered at very least to be a joint author of Jay Z songs. For 45 songs, Mahan states that he was in charge of setting up or scheduling the recording sessions and studio time, tracking the prototype beat of the so-called producer, pre-mixing the beat, sample editing, choosing the recording methodology and setting up the microphones, vocal recording, vocal coaching, vocal compositing, multi-track mixing, song arranging, pitch shifting, additional editing, and pre-mastering a final version through use of a digital audio workstation such as Pro Tools. This is a fairly significant issue in the music industry as controversial things like copyright termination rights continue to loom. #Mulinjer - The fundamental element for the future of music, literature and journalism.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:18:07 +0000
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