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Re: [ARSCLIST] Brunswick Records rights/Universal
James L Wolf wrote:
There is some cause for hope. Archeophone records, based in Illinois, decided at some point not to care about the state laws that cover pre-72 recordings, and have declared all the contents of their CD reissues to be public domain. Also, and unlike Yazoo and Revenant, they give all the information about the source recordings. Perhaps the law in Illinois allows them to do this. Perhaps they just have some huevos. But putting the same material on the web presents different problems, especially for an institution like the Library of Congress, so we have to be much more careful.
James
Historically, the owner of rights to any material has the option to
waive those rights and to place the material in the public domain
regardless of publication date. AFAIK, no recent legislation has altered
that option.
Mike
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