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for music apparantlyjavilu wrote:
Is it true?
If so, what wonderful news indeed!javilu wrote:The EU has adopted the extented copyright law. The formal signing will take place shortly. Meaning, the copyright will be protected for 95 years from conception, just as they are in the North America and Japan ... Is it true?
Not quitedrjohncarpenter wrote: Justice is served!
Well it will be still long way... EU is not one country and copyright legislation differ... but at the end I assume that copyright laws will be unified in every EU country. Actually in some EU countries is not a 50-years limit but 70 years now. So we will see. Still, I do not expect to see these changes soon.drjohncarpenter wrote:If so, what wonderful news indeed!javilu wrote:The EU has adopted the extented copyright law. The formal signing will take place shortly. Meaning, the copyright will be protected for 95 years from conception, just as they are in the North America and Japan ... Is it true?
Justice is served!
Wonderful news! Now Lisa's brats never have to work again.drjohncarpenter wrote:If so, what wonderful news indeed!javilu wrote:The EU has adopted the extented copyright law. The formal signing will take place shortly. Meaning, the copyright will be protected for 95 years from conception, just as they are in the North America and Japan ... Is it true?
Justice is served!
"Justice is served"?drjohncarpenter wrote:If so, what wonderful news indeed!
Justice is served!
That implies there was something unjustified about MRS's existence and their work in the first place! And justice for whom or what, exactly?
Good eye!Scott wrote:That implies there was something unjustified about MRS's existence and their work ...
Do you have the Ger Rijff library?lucio wrote:I think even if MRS ends up just putting out books, I'd be happy. I'm not a big collector of 50s Elvis books but did really enjoy the ones from MRS ...
Okay then, what was the injustice re MRS in your opinion?drjohncarpenter wrote:Good eye!Scott wrote:That implies there was something unjustified about MRS's existence and their work ...
Scott wrote:Okay then, what was the injustice re MRS in your opinion?drjohncarpenter wrote:Good eye!Scott wrote:That implies there was something unjustified about MRS's existence and their work ...
Obviously, he won't!Scott wrote:Will The Doc do me the courtesy of responding here?
I'd like to clirify that I don't actually care about the artists.likethebike wrote:Elvis obscures the picture Javilu because his records are still easy to obtain and so popular. A label like Bear Family might actually welcome recordings falling into the PD because it would give them access to recordings they currently can't touch. As Torben points out, the vast majority vintage music is currently not in print. And the people who are buying this stuff know what Bear Family are about and the 50 year-old rule is a very long time. The type of packages that Bear does would only be minimally affected. The thing is that all this does is make it harder to find vintage releases and keep people from buying them. It is amazing as the internet continues to make mincemeat of the hard CD industry, how the industry keeps helping it by putting music further out of the public's hands.
Again as I've pointed out many times before this does not leave the artists out in the cold. They can release their own music and receive all the money rather than a piddling royalty if they indeed were even receiving royalties at this late date.
As for something falling out of public domain going back into copyright can happen. All a company has to do is buy the rights to the music.PEP wrote:It is to my understanding, even if the law does change, all recordings that have gone out of copyright and fallen into Public Domian, they will remain so. Something does not fall into copyright once it has fallen out. Therefore all of Elvis’ recordings from the 1950’s will remain Public Domian, a company like MRS as a example, has probably at least 3 years of life, since it has only released the Sun years and 10 other tracks from the 50’s.
PEP
I fail to see how this would work.elvislennon wrote:As for something falling out of public domain going back into copyright can happen. All a company has to do is buy the rights to the music.PEP wrote:It is to my understanding, even if the law does change, all recordings that have gone out of copyright and fallen into Public Domian, they will remain so. Something does not fall into copyright once it has fallen out. Therefore all of Elvis’ recordings from the 1950’s will remain Public Domian, a company like MRS as a example, has probably at least 3 years of life, since it has only released the Sun years and 10 other tracks from the 50’s.
PEP
Example: Superman serials from 1948 and 1950 has been in public domain now for about thirty years. Columbia Pictures owned these serials until the early 70s when they got into public domain. Back in 2006 before Superman Returns was release Warner Brothers bought the rights to the serials so they can be release for the fall in a Superman DVD releases like no other. All four movies was re-release, serials, cartoon serials, Supergirl and Superman Returns was all release the October of 2006. The 1940s Superman cartoon serials are now owned by Warner Brothers too. They was in public domain since 1968.
So if RCA branch in europe buys back the copyrights to Elvis' music (which I 100% think it will happen) the music will fall back into the copyright law yet again. That is how they can fall back into the copyright law. It has been done before and it will be done yet again. If it happens to be in public domain and this law passes. Any music company can by the rights to the music since it is public domain. Example: Apple Records can buy Elvis' 50s recordings and release them (which I doubt that will happen) but that give you an idea of how something go back in to the copyright law.
