Re: [ARSCLIST] Vinegar syndrome audio tapes [ARSCLIST] Memorex CDs and more

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Yes, but for how long?
> 
> Fifty years from the recording date seems plenty to me. Nobody who was
> working for the record company or playing in the orchestra will be still
> there after 50 years. 
> 
> Why should the kids who run Sony-BMG now be receiving money from the
> work of the Elvis Presley generation?
> 
I would suppose, because they can! And they are still making money off
of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman (and Caruso?). And it is this money
that inspires them to spread the pseudo-eternal US copyright as far as
they possibly can.

This is what inspired me to think about my "use it or lose it"
approach. Sony-BMG can keep a copyright on the Elvis stuff as
long as they keep selling it...but, meanwhile, why should they
also keep copyrights on obscure territory bands who cut a
disc on Bluebird before the AFM ban, which didn't sell and
thus hasn't been available to anyone but lucky 78 collectors
since!

What about Maurice J. Gunsky...

...stevenc
http://users.interlinks.net/stevenc/