The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk

232 点作者 glitcher超过 3 年前

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dhosek超过 3 年前

Part of the dispute Prince was having with the label continues to this day and is why Taylor Swift has re-recorded all her albums. It is "standard practice" for the label to take ownership of the copyright on the recorded material (called phonographic copyright and indicated with ℗) while charging all the costs of recording against the artist's share of the royalties which can result in an artist owing the label money for a hit record.Ray Charles was a pioneer in insisting that he own the phonographic copyright on his recordings when he moved from Atlantic to ABC-Paramount yet this remained something out of reach for most artists. Robert Fripp was engaged in a decades-long lawsuit against EG to regain control of the phonographic copyright on King Crimson material (as well as to recoup illegally withheld royalties). Squeeze is another artist who re-recorded their albums to reclaim the phonographic copyright.It's worth noting that Warner Brothers' response to Swift re-recording her albums was to update their contracts to prevent any other artist from following in her footsteps.

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notpachet超过 3 年前

Prince's struggles with Warner bore other wonderful fruit, as well. Emancipation, Prince's first album after casting off the metaphorical shackles of Warner, is a superb album. It has 36 songs and spans 180 minutes, to give you a sense of the amount of artistic freedom that Prince must have been feeling at the time. Highly recommended listening for any casual Prince fan who wants to expand their knowledge of his repertoire. The man was an unqualified musical genius.

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mmastrac超过 3 年前

Not snarky at all, but this would be great as an SVG - which could then be turned into a proper TTF using the private-use area.EDIT: seems to be available as a TTF here (but apparently under 'S' rather than 'P'): <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jvj2ss4jfymvir1/AADXW3RWGwgykj1mgsInvCRBa?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jvj2ss4jfymvir1/AADXW3RWGwgykj1mg...</a>

chriscjcj超过 3 年前

If it was part of a font, then I would think that the logo was in vector form. (It could have been a bitmap font, of course, but if you're sending the font to magazines and publishers, a postscript or TueType font would have been more appropriate.) If it did exist in the font as a vector based image, it seems strange to upload a rasterized version to archive.org. It wouldn't have been too hard to upload it as an svg or eps and maintain its quality regardless of its size/resolution.

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Stampo00超过 3 年前

The title is a bit hyperbolic. Although it's cool to secure an original diskette and read it, archived versions were already available online.

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linsomniac超过 3 年前

Prince's name change reminds me of that Bit of Fry and Laurie police station sketch: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-dchJPXGA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-dchJPXGA</a>

xg15超过 3 年前

This could be solved today with a short application to the Unicode consortium and a few OS updates, so I guess we made progress :)

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jonplackett超过 3 年前

CompuServe. That's a name I forgot I used to know so well!

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1-more超过 3 年前

Limor Fried continues to be a hero.

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ok123456超过 3 年前

This was around the time Prince was sending out cease and disease letters to people hosting Prince midi files.

ComputerGuru超过 3 年前

After all that, they uploaded it to the archive as an image rather than as a font or vector file!?

Anthony-G超过 3 年前

According to the linked biography¹> The label was reportedly after control of Prince's master tapes.Edit: I’m guessing this refers to owning the right to copy a master rather than owning the physical tapes that the master is stored on.Relevant quote from a 1996 NY Times article on Prince²> If you don't own your masters, your master owns you.When Prince changed his name to a symbol, I didn’t pay too much attention to pop or mainstream music so when I heard about it, I had assumed he was simply being pretentious. After hearing about his problems with Warner Brothers, I have a lot more sympathy for his actions and desire to have creative control over his own music.¹ <a href="https://www.angelfire.com/wv/Royalbadness/bio.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.angelfire.com/wv/Royalbadness/bio.html</a>² <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/17/arts/a-re-inventor-of-his-world-and-himself.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/17/arts/a-re-inventor-of-his...</a>

teajunky超过 3 年前

The name doesn't matter to me. I would like to hear these five hundred songs

pvaldes超过 3 年前

Losing it would be a minor problem, when could had been redone easily in metafont from any of the millions of singles of the most beautiful girl in the world available.We have a scientific symbol yet for the representation of both sexes, hermaphrodyte. Is in unicode yet (if I'm not wrong) so there is not a real need to use this. Would start a war for every artist and band in the planet asking for their personal symbol in unicode. Rolling stones tongue should be for example. Is as much iconic than the trumpet key, if not more.

habitue超过 3 年前

I guess add one more falsehood programmers believe about names:- People's names aren't a non-unicode symbol that a person made up just to refer to themselves

SavantIdiot超过 3 年前

This article grossly understates how much Anil Dash adores Prince! Anyone who's followed Anil knows it goes quite deep.

marcodiego超过 3 年前

Hmmm... Prince, not Prince of Persia.