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| Thread ID: 81840 | 2007-08-08 23:29:00 | When does music copyright expire | Morgenmuffel (187) | PC World Chat |
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| 578395 | 2007-08-08 23:29:00 | Hi all I was listening to some Glenn Miller music today, and was curious to know whether it would be out of copyright yet as he died way back in the 40s |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 578396 | 2007-08-09 00:31:00 | Bill Gates says no..but there are also survivors and spouses and great grandchildren who might still want a piece of the action in the form of residuals and fees. Some music is in public domain, and I imagine good ol" Google could help for individual requests and queries. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 578397 | 2007-08-09 00:43:00 | Hi Joe I had thougt it was 40 years after it was released then it was changed to some time after the artists death But I don't remember aha this helps (www.clearance.com) |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 578398 | 2007-08-09 00:57:00 | The UK says this: fe15.news.re3.yahoo.com Some peripheral US discussion: news.zdnet.com ..and a US 1993 note: writ.news.findlaw.com There's gotta be more than tat though...it's all screwed up right now..the laws aren't fair and they are changing all the time...etc...you takes your shot and hopes the knee-breakers don't visit your house. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 578399 | 2007-08-09 01:10:00 | Check wikimedia.org! Go to the WikiMedia section, they have a ton of public domain stuff. | MattMik (12630) | ||
| 578400 | 2007-08-09 01:13:00 | The whole situation is very complex. Different countries have different laws, but since the US dominates the popular music industry "they" exert power and influence beyond their boundaries. In the UK the time period was 50 years after the death of the composer, in the US it was 75 years, BUT the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act (1998) extended this back retrospectively by another 20 years. So songs that had been in the public domain have now gone back into copyright. homepages.law.asu.edu The whole situation is iniquitous, we now have also the US music industry via RIAA and Sound Exchange trying to kill off internet radio by imposing crippling and potentially bankrupting royalty fees on internet broadcasts, the fees being retrospective. http://www.savenetradio.org/ Also see one effect here:www.melodylane.net |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 578401 | 2007-08-09 01:23:00 | Hi all I was listening to some Glenn Miller music today, and was curious to know whether it would be out of copyright yet as he died way back in the 40s the other interesting thing is did they have copyright back then? in the early days there wasn't any copyright so music was constantly ripped off by other singers. i'm not sue exactly when copywrite started. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 578402 | 2007-08-09 01:33:00 | The whole situation is very complex. Different countries have different laws, but since the US dominates the popular music industry "they" exert power and influence beyond their boundaries. In the UK the time period was 50 years after the death of the composer, in the US it was 75 years, BUT the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act (1998) extended this back retrospectively by another 20 years. So songs that had been in the public domain have now gone back into copyright. homepages.law.asu.edu The whole situation is iniquitous, we now have also the US music industry via RIAA and Sound Exchange trying to kill off internet radio by imposing crippling and potentially bankrupting royalty fees on internet broadcasts, the fees being retrospective. http://www.savenetradio.org/ Also see one effect here:www.melodylane.net RETROACTIVE! lol..sorry! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 578403 | 2007-08-09 02:40:00 | This is one field in which you can correctly talk about "Mickey Mouse" legislation. The Disney copyrights on the mouse family were about to expire. The Disney corporation didn't like that idea, so they had a chat with the politicians and suddenly the copyright on the mouse family wasn't about to expire. :) I suppose it will expire some time after Mickey Mouse dies, and since MM is a cartoon character, he would be immortal. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
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