What a great start to a new year! I have the best Woman in my life EVER and the best bandmates EVER. Dianna was a God send for me and I could not have asked for more. Supportive in all my enbdeavours and a friend for life. James and Andre, my brothers in musical mahem are such a perfect match for my tastes in music creation that 2013 lookes to be the best year EVER!  My music studio is all but completed and I've already worked out the kinks with the software and hardware configs. To tell you the truth the few works I've already done have a much better overall production and sound to them then my old bandmates that spent time and money in a "real studio" (LOL!) and came out the other side with an embarassment that I'm glad I had no part of. Their creative talent was so poor that they used songs written when I was in the band and tried to change wording in the lyrics to make the songs their own and distance themselves from me. What a dismal attempt that was! They still don't get the reality that all they did was create a derivitave work! Here is the exerpt from the Copyright Website:

"A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing

works. Also known as a “new version,” a derivative work is copyrightable if
it includes what copyright law calls an “original work of authorship.” Any work
in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications
represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship is a derivative work
or a new version." Musical example would be;
 

• Sound recording

(CD in which two of the ten selections were previously
published online)

Well, unfortunately for them we did publish them online. I have the original recordings that are timestamped and dated, and even if the derivitae works have been copyrighted it is of little importance in a court of law should I consider legal action in the future to recoup my creative investment in the works.

The new works are so bad that I actually would be embarassed for it to be known that I had a part of their creation, so maybe I should just forget it because there is no hope for anything on this CD to become !