Re: [ARSCLIST] Brunswick Records rights/Universal

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

steven c wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James L Wolf" <jwol@xxxxxxx>
> > Then of course there's the question: If Archeophone is legal to operate in
> Illinois, are the CDs still legal to sell in NY? I think NY would have to
> decide this, since all pre-72 recording are not under federal jurisdiction.
> I'm no lawyer, but I'm guessing the whole interstate commerce issue wouldn't
> apply here unless the state of Illinois decided to sue the state of NY over
> Archeophone (or vice versa), which seems unlikely.
> >
> Only they ARE under Federal jurisdiction...that was the whole point of
> the DMCA (or its predecessor) which specifically voided the maze of
> state laws and replaced them with the 2047/2067 expiry date. Prior to
> that, I assume each state had laws (I think Vermont didn't) regarding
> making copies of "phonograph records" so that what was legal in one
> state suddenly became "Disco non grata" when you crossed the wrong
> state line...
>
> Steven C. Barr
> (who is waiting with bated breath for someone from either Victor or
> Columbia to rush in and grab their early records back, since I
> violated the terms of the lease by buying them second-hand...)

Won't matter much which company does the grabbing, since they're now Sony/BMG
(oh, the pity of it all, the pity of it all).

dl