Well, if you checked out the actual law that covers the issues in this thread, you would know that I a m right. I can record a performance with my own interpretation of the work, and that recording becomes my property. However, the law states that in good manner I should credit the author of the original work. But when I record a performance on my HW computer, that recording becomes my property. If you as a composer has published the score (i.e. sold it to anyone interested), you have made your work public. You own the rights to that piece - it is yours. But you cannot stop anyone from playing your score in public, make a recording of it and sell that recording, or in any other way prevent publication of recordings of your work. If I purchase the score, records it and publish it - the recording belongs to me. It is my interpretation, therefore it is my work. That does of course not mean that I own the score - just my interpretation of it.
Believe me, I know this stuff. I can in fact copy - with the consent of the law - all the CD's my father owns, as long as I don't make the copy public. The key words are "for private use" and (paraphrasing) "the listener decides when and where the recording is played back".
And so it should be. My interpretation of any work - tempo, mood, registration... - should be considered my work, and my work belongs to me. If I record an improvisation over "desperado" by the Eagles on the CC Metz, that improvisation is mine. But I have no rights to the original song - just the right to perform it.
Believe me, I know this stuff. I can in fact copy - with the consent of the law - all the CD's my father owns, as long as I don't make the copy public. The key words are "for private use" and (paraphrasing) "the listener decides when and where the recording is played back".
And so it should be. My interpretation of any work - tempo, mood, registration... - should be considered my work, and my work belongs to me. If I record an improvisation over "desperado" by the Eagles on the CC Metz, that improvisation is mine. But I have no rights to the original song - just the right to perform it.