Well, here in the U.S. every time a Disney item seems to be ready to
come out of copyright, the Congress gets busy and extends copyright
far beyond the original conception. Thus the Sonny Bono Copyright Term
Extension Act has been called the “Disney Protection Act.”
-Arle
On Apr 10, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Colin wrote:
Correct and the copyright of the SONGS still has 20 years to run BUT
the sound recordings are still copyright to the Beatles and record
companies and so, after 2013, their first album can be played
anywhere without having to pay anything to anyone along with several
Elvis albums etc. .They won't get a penny from them (although the
songs themselves will still be copyright until 2033).
" The UK treasury is set to refuse extending copyright on sound
recordings from 50 years to 95 years when a report looking at
intellectual property rights in the UK is published next week, in a
situation that could see EU copyright expire on some Beatles songs
in 2013.
"Across the European Union, authors of songs and their families
benefit from copyright for the whole of their lives plus 70 years,
while performers of songs and their producers benefit for just 50
years from the date of recording - as in the case of some Cliff
Richard songs from 1958 and some Beatles songs from 1963."
http://euobserver.com/9/22961/?rk=1
I suppose this means that you can mime to the tune, but not play it.
As I said, copyright is a labyrinth to negotiate.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message ----- From: "Billy Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:04 PM
Subject: [HG] Re Music
Hi,
Colin wrote
"There's also a bit of a murmur here about the copyright running
out on the Beatles songs within a few years as well so get ready
for that (Norwegian wood sounds quite nice on HG, doesn't it?)."
Colin Hill
Does not a Mr M Jackson owe all those great B`tunes?
Billy Horne
