Stephen Rapley
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Friday, 3 January 2003
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Friday, 3 January 2003copyright trans atlantic 2
Which Means There Will Be Litigation and Probably New Legislation. Thanks to How Appealing for the link to this NY Times article on the effect of the expiration of European music copyrights as great recordings from the 50's go into the public domain under a 50 year term for copyright. In theory, it would be legal to place a European public domain recording on a European website. [The Trademark Blog]
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European Copyrights. European music copyrights from the '50s due to expire this year, and to grossly oversimplify things, RIAA is on the warpath, saying that imports from there would be acts of piracy. Considering that there's a gold mine's worth of material begging to be shown the light again (the Maria Callas material mentioned in the article, for example), no doubt there will be some great releases...but will EMI's actions be more the exception than the rule? (NYT link, yadayada) [MetaFilter]