It wasn't the RIAA but Cage's publishers. As the article points out, he credited Cage as co-composer; that made it a derivative work, so they sent him their standard mechanical license form.
On a filk album, you'd have a pretty good case that it's covered by the parody exception in US case law.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
momijizukamori and
Re: As a matter of fact...
Date: 1 Feb 2004 09:05 (UTC)It wasn't the RIAA but Cage's publishers. As the article points out, he credited Cage as co-composer; that made it a derivative work, so they sent him their standard mechanical license form.
On a filk album, you'd have a pretty good case that it's covered by the parody exception in US case law.