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Re: Musik: auslaufende Urheberrechte?



At 15:13 08.01.03 +0100, Patrick Goltzsch wrote:

>Der Artikel "Same old song, different meaning for P2P"
>(http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979532.html?tag=fd_top) in
>CNET ist nun schon der zweite, den ich lese, der behauptet,
>in Europa (und Kanada) laufe der Urheberrechtsschutz für
>Plattenaufnahmen nach 50 Jahren aus.
>
>Das hieße, die Aufnahmen alter Blues-Größen (z.B. Robert
>Johnson), ein Großteil von Louis Armstrong oder Klemperer
>wären heute bereits gemeinfrei. 


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From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To:  <free-sklyarov-uk@xenoclast.org>
Subject: Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] NYTimes article on European copyrights expiring
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:55:40 +0000 (GMT)


On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Jim Peters wrote:

> Probably Slashdot readers have already seen this, about European
> copyrights now expiring from the 50s, including those covering one
> artist who represents 5% of EMI Classics' income:
> 
>   http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/international/02CND_COPY.html

What this does not make clear is that it is only the copyrights on the
*sound recordings* that have a 50 year period.  The copyrights in the
musical work, and in the literary work if there are any words, still last
in the UK for 70 years after the author's death.  (So recordings published
before 1953 where any composers / authors died before 1933 should be safe
to distribute, those where any author died in 1933 or later may not be.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk

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