Remember Chris Hadfield ’s gooseflesh - bring on cover of “ Space Oddity ? ” Well , after the Canadian spaceman ’s one - twelvemonth accord with David Bowie expired this preceding May , the video — which had amassed 23,489,187 smasher — was take down from YouTube . Now , some five months later , it ’s back . Here ’s what happened .
“ When David Bowie wrote and show ‘ Space Oddity ’ in 1969 , I wonder if he ever reckon it being wreak in orbit ? ” Hadfieldnoted recentlyon his blog . “ Even more so , would he have opine ( or worried about ) the sound care of excess - planetary music ? ”
Indeed , the transcription , which was made aboard the ISS at an elevation of 250 mi ( 400 km ) , became the subject area of some interesting copyright considerations . People start wonderingif right of first publication still utilise in distance , and if so , under which legal power . rarify matter even further was the fact that the Space Station was built by 15 countries . Did a finicky Space Agency own the recording ?
These complexness occurred to Hadfield while in space , so he get hold of Bowie ’s publisher and legal team to reach some sort of agreement . Hadfield writes :
They had subsequently worked happily and professionally with me and the Canadian Space Agency . The release of the TV was all fit - to when it was originally posted on May 2013 . Bowie himself fuck it , posting on Facebook that it was “ peradventure the most affecting version of the song ever make . ”
They forged a one - year agreement . Thus , the video , with some sorrow , had to be taken off YouTube this past May , which is kind of crazy when you consider it had 23.4 million hits .
This chronological sequence was n’t anyone ’s fault . The Clarence Shepard Day Jr. we ask the video down we started to put to work again to get permission to get it re - posted . But the sound mental process is careful and exacting , and thus take time . Despite countless on - production line expressions of frustration and desire , it was n’t anyone ’s complaint - will or jealousy that keep this version of Oddity off YouTube . It was merely the rude consequence of due process .
Thankfully , the two parties were capable to strive a raw two - class correspondence .
And now , we are so happy to be able to announce that myon - orbit screening of Space Oddity is back up on YouTube . This time we have a new 2 - twelvemonth concord , and it is there , for free , for everyone . We ’re proud to have helped bring in Bowie ’s genius from 1969 into blank itself in 2013 , and now ever - forward . Special thanks to Onward Music Ltd , to the Canadian Space Agency and NASA , to musicians Emm Gryner and Joe Corcoran , to videographer Andrew Tidby , to my boy Evan , and mostly to Mr. David Bowie himself . For the countless others who have help work to bring about a novel era of exploration , the art of it sing to us all .
[ Chris Hadfield|Economist ]
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