Re: [ARSCLIST] Brunswick Records rights/Universal

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/01/06, James L Wolf wrote:
> Looks like Universal is going to focus on LP-era material. That's
> fine, and I hope they do a good job with these things and make them
> available at at-least CD quality. But the fact that they're not
> touching the 78-era material is telling. It helps make the case that
> the vast majority of this material has NO commercial viability now or
> in the forseable future. Plus the digitizing costs must be much
> higher.

Universal has been releasing an excellent series of CD box sets of 1950s
recordings of classical music. (Almost all in mono.)


> Is there any progress in the general drive to make earlier
> sound-recording rights similar to other contemporaneous material (i.e.
> pre-23 PD, post 22 into PD starting 2018)? With all this data about
> unavailability, and now this first seeming corporate reaction, such a
> schema should be an acceptable compromise to all parties.

The 1923 date applies only in the USA.

Regards
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Don Cox
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