14585, RE: PA vs SR Posted by DTag, Wed Jul-02-03 03:15 AM
Hello!
A Form PA stands for Performing Arts and protects the whole song - so it would be the song as the song and anything coming after that (any recording) would be ownership of the copyright holder in that song.
A Form SR stands for Sound Recording. This is why labels can own the SOUND RECORDING and prevent you from using it, but you can record a cover song in your own way. The Sound Recording is its own separate art but it only covers that one particular recording of a song - not EVERY recording of a song. So Tony Bennett's Fly Me to the Moon is a separate ownership than Frank Sinatra's. Makes sense and they are on two separate labels.
Does that answer the question?
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