Re: [ARSCLIST] Big changes in the music business, was Re: Footlilght closing

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A fella can hope! But I wonder if the labels are going to spend the next few
years transitioning to
> download sales using existing digital masters and not worry about what's not
be digitally mastered
> for now. I worry very much about the future of deluxe inclusive box sets from
companies like Mosaic,
> and even less ambitious compilations and catalog-refreshment remasters from
the content owners
> themselves. Warner Music, now a stand-alone, seems for the moment to be very
much supporting Rhino's
> continuing reissue/repackage model, but I see a change in emphasis from the
biggest mega-glomerates.
>
Fortunately, there are still places like Canada, Australia/NZ, and most of
Europe, where the term of copyright on a sound recording remains fixed at
50 years...meaning that any number of anthologies of pre-1957 recordings
are being issued, usually at VERY cheap prices...and entirely legally!

It is only in the US of A, where the term of copyright for sound recordings
can best be described as "eternity plus 50 years, or until God dies, whichever
may occur first...!" that the mega-conglomerates can control whether or not
we can hear "The Greatest Hits Of the Peerless Quartette!"

Steven C. Barr