Re: [ARSCLIST] [was ARSCLIST] When you die...

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Olhsson" <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From John Schooley: "... perhaps
> it is fitting that the archives be established overseas as well where
> they are not subject to our draconian copyright laws."
> 
> There is the slight matter that the purpose of that "draconian" Bono act was
> to bring U.S. copyright terms into line with most of the rest of the world
> in order to end abuses by people attempting to profit from the differences
> in term length between different countries.
> 
Possible...however, the DMCA (and subsequent revisions) wound up making
EVERY sound recording fixed in the US of A inaccessible to those who
would reissue same (until (currently, anyway) January 1, 2067...!

Note, also, that 99% or so of those countries use the traditional
(in the British Commonwealth and many other "foreign" lands...?!)
term of 50 years for sound recordings.

In turn, many recording-industry groups (see under RIAA, CRIA, usw.)
in other lands look enviously at the 175-year-plus copyright term
defined by the DMCA...?!

The WORST feature of this is the fact that it has effectively 
blocked many possible reissues of acoustic-era 78rpm phonorecords...?!

Steven C. Barr