The tragedy is that the recording industry wants to recreate the US concept of "eternity plus a century or two" copyright to every land which might be able...now or at some future date...to press reissue CD's (or mass-burn CD-R's...!). This basically guarantees that 99.9% of our sound-recorded history will forever go unheard...the industry won't reissue it, since it won't guarantee the mega-profits they dimly recall (and want back again...?!) BUT, they won't allow anyone else to reissue it for fear of "establishing a precedent"...!