Re: [ARSCLIST] Some potential bad news ...

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The worst is the sitting on stuff in the vaults. There needs to be a mechanism where if something is 
out of print, if it stays out of print xx years it's considered "abandoned" or something akin and 
thus a niche-reissuer could get hold of the material, paying the actual copyright owner a royalty. 
My belief is, if you own the copyright and it's been in public distribution, you have the right to 
collect royalties for however many years the law says but you shouldn't have the right to lock 
something away in a vault because you do not know how to sell profitably to a niche audience.

This all might be resolved by the online per-song model, which requires less of an audience for 
profitability in most cases. However, what about the vast holdings that were never digitized and 
thus there is a substantial cost involved in making the material available online? It's an 
interesting problem ...

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Some potential bad news ...


> I wouldn't exactly put it that way; you make it sound like those who want to reissue these 
> recordings are doing something underhanded. Seems to me that all this will do is permit record 
> companies to either charge exorbitant licensing fees or out-and-out reject license requests.
>
> Cary Ginell
> Origin Jazz Library
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Olhsson <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:40 pm
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Some potential bad news ...
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> Wonderful news for artists and musicians but bad news for record labels and
> others who seek to profit from other people's music.
>
> Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN
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