Re: [ARSCLIST] Another on-line audio resource

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Musical compositions were cut off at 1924, and that was to prevent Rhapsody In
Blue from falling into PD.

dl

Steven Smolian wrote:

> A myth.  See the new CLIR study I cited earlier today.
>
> Steve Smolian
>
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> From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 11:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Another on-line audio resource
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> > David Seubert wrote:
> >> I wonder why 1924? If it is all Mozart the underlying works are clearly
> >> in the public domain no matter what the age of the recording. Nothing
> >> changed in 1924 with respect to copyright on sound recordings (or more
> >> properly, the lack thereof).
> >>
> >> David Seubert
> >> UCSB
> >
> > The predominant opinion is that American copyright protects all sound
> > recordings fixed before 1924 - though I'm not sure of those from 1923.
> >
> > Mike
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