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Re: [ARSCLIST] Okeh Catalogue Recordings
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From: "RA Friedman" <yiddishsong@xxxxxxxxx>
> Were there successors to the Okeh company. Was it part of Columbia and is
now part of CBS/SONY/BMG/Bertelsmann? Trying to determine if we need to
clear copyright on an Okeh recording from the 20s for use in a museum
exhibit.
>
Columbia took over Okeh around the beginning of 1926, and since then has
reissued Okeh material from the 78 era to today. The Sony et al group owns
everything made from 1926 on outright, since they recorded it; I would
assume they also own earlier Okeh material, although very little in the
way of acoustic Okeh was ever reissued.
Steven C. Barr