Talk:Radio-Activity

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YesY A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details
NoN At least one section of prose (excluding the lead section)
YesY A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
YesY A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
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YesY A casual reader should learn something about the album. Andrzejbanas (talk) 23:33, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Ricardus, you are confused between copyright in musicial compositions (publishing) and copyright in sound recordsings (indicated by the (P) symbol). I will need to correct your recent edits. --feline1 09:45, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I have been digging around on the PRS-MCPS database this morning (http://www.mcps.co.uk ) The legal situation regarding Kraftwerk's publishing arrangements is nowhere near as straightforward as "from 1975 onwards, they had 100% ownership of all their compositions". Whilst the names "Kling Klang Verlag" and "Kling Klang Musik GmbH" certainly regularly appear on the PRS-MCPS database against their songs from 1975 onwards, numerous entries still also show percentages owned by at least a dozen other companies (mainly various EMI companies).

In any case, owning full publishing rights on your own material does not give you "100% artistic freedom"! (if only!) - this is a very naive and simplistic attitude. At best, it simply means you get higher %age revenue stream from radio/TV broadcast royalties and mechanicals from record releases - but the downside is that you no longer get paid publishing advances by your publishing company.--feline1 10:27, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Track Listing

Could someone with a better knowledge of Kraftwerk than me confirm the writing credits? The back of my CD has the instrumental tracks as 1, 5, 6, 11, 12 (thus credited to Hutter, Schneider). That would leave 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 credited to Hutter, Schneider, and Schult. Correct? The article is slightly different from this. Grievous Angel 18:49, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

The correct credits are: instrumental tracks are all (Hütter/Schneider), whilst the tracks with vocals are all (Hütter/Schneider/Schult) (i.e. Emil Schult co-wrote the lyrics).--feline1 10:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

The supplementary images towards to end of the article are currently tagged for deletion (due Sunday 28th) unless suitable fair use excuses are provided. As they are not the main image representing the album in the info panel should they be let go? Initially I thought that showing the contents of original vinyl releases would be cool (in this age of CDs and digital downloads), but nowadays I am tending to favour deletion unless they are showing something that cannot otherwise be put into worded form. In short, these are decorative elements rather than useful information. Ricadus 17:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)