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The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the 50-Year Copyright Itch
HughPickens.com writes: Victoria Shannon reports in the NY Times that fifty years ago was a good year for music, with the Beatles appearing on Billboard's charts for the first time, the Rolling Stones releasing their first album, the Supremes with five No. 1 hits, and Simon and Garfunkel releasing their debut album. The 50-year milestone is significant, because music published within the first half-century of its recording gets another 20 years of copyright protection under changes in European law. So every year since 2012, studios go through their tape vaults to find unpublished music to get it on the market before the deadline.
The first year, Motown released a series of albums packed with outtakes by some of its major acts, and Sony released a limited-edition collection of 1962 outtakes by Bob Dylan, with the surprisingly frank title, "The Copyright Extension Collection, Vol. I." In 2013, Sony released a second Dylan set, devoted to previously unreleased 1963 recordings. Similar recordings by the Beatles and the Beach Boys followed. This year, Sony is releasing a limited-edition nine-LP set of 1964 recordings by Dylan, including a 46-second try at "Mr. Tambourine Man," which he would not complete until 1965. The Beach Boys released two copyright-extension sets of outtakes last week. And while there's no official word on a Beatles release, last year around this time, "The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963" turned up unannounced on iTunes.
The first year, Motown released a series of albums packed with outtakes by some of its major acts, and Sony released a limited-edition collection of 1962 outtakes by Bob Dylan, with the surprisingly frank title, "The Copyright Extension Collection, Vol. I." In 2013, Sony released a second Dylan set, devoted to previously unreleased 1963 recordings. Similar recordings by the Beatles and the Beach Boys followed. This year, Sony is releasing a limited-edition nine-LP set of 1964 recordings by Dylan, including a 46-second try at "Mr. Tambourine Man," which he would not complete until 1965. The Beach Boys released two copyright-extension sets of outtakes last week. And while there's no official word on a Beatles release, last year around this time, "The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963" turned up unannounced on iTunes.
Well, yes, but when the constitution was written, 14 years after publication, the creator of the work was likely dead of the scurvy, or gout.
Glad you brought that up.
J.R.R. Tolkien has been dead since 1972. Middle Earth Enterprises goes after anything Do not have the nerve to mention H****t, lest ye be sued. The Tolkien family and Middle Earth Enterprises, asre even busy suing each other. So THIS is what the perpetual copyright system is heading toward, Lawsuits and pecuniary extraction
It's a real hoot of a read , The legal travails of a man dead since 1972. And it's the direction we are moving in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Well, 1) it was a flippant comment, but then 2) you went and riled me up by making that bogus comparison to physical artifacts.
People like you can't seem to wrap your heads around the difference between the physical product of some unit of manual labor, and the creation of an idea. Compare the value of all the tea in crates on docks in Boston harbor in 1776 against the intangible ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and tell me which was more valuable.
We could have this big conversation about it, but you just won't understand. I believe you when you say you "can also never figure out..." So, take this as a statement that here's another thing in the world that you cannot comprehend, and I'm done here.