Mike Richter wrote:
> All the usual market forces would ensure that prices were remarkably low > if not for the absurd extension of copyright to ensure that the > corporations holding rights to decades-old material maintained their > monopoly. Since they are remiss in reissues of any but the most popular > material and unwilling to allow others to do so (with exceptions such as > Testament), they are destroying the heritage through malign neglect. > > Let me cite one instance. In the 1950s, the Metropolitan Opera Record > Club issued a series of recordings using featured singers and conductors > who are otherwise almost undocumented. The Met holds the copyright and > zealously defends it, though I am told on good authority that they not > only have lost the masters but no longer even have good copies of many > of the issued LPs. So Kirsten's Tosca, Tucker's Lenski and Mitropoulos's > (abridged) Walkuere are little more than rumors in terms of legal issues. > > Mike
And those discs are coming close to the 50-year mark, if we can just hold back
the copyright extensions for a couple of years......Canada isn't going to change
for quite a while yet, incidentally, since there'd barely been anything proposed
and our Parliament is now in election mode till the end of January.
And I have near mint copies of many of those Met sets.
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