Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I'd say once an artist decides to give a song or book away, they've given up their rights to control that material. Once they've put it out their, it's out there, and as you note I don't see how they can take that back.
Now any future, songs,albums books etc. they have control over and can keep off the P2P etc.
And that could include official recordings of stuff they gave away. A lot of up and coming bands are going to give away demos and live cuts as they don't have the money to get in the studio. Once they get in the studio and put out and LP or EP for sale, that doesn't mean people can pirate the studio version Song A because the band had previously given away a demo of Song A. But they can keep trading the demo of Song A that the band gave away.
That's my 2 cents on that anyway!
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