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In Reply to: RE: Troubling Copyright Practice and Question....... posted by Charles Hansen on November 5, 2017 at 01:58:38:
" would think that Jimmy Webb's estate would hold the copyright, although my understanding is that current copyright law puts things into the public domain after 50 years unless specific actions are taken.
That is one of the big reasons we are seeing things like the recent re-release of "Sgt. Pepper's" by The Beatles. If they had not officially released the outtakes before the 50 years were up, then all of the bootlegged material of the outtakes would have been in the public domain for anyone to use freely, for any purpose whatsoever."
The copyright in musical works in most countries including the USA is not just the specified period but the life of the composer plus the period. Jimmy Webb is still with us ( I think your reference to his estate may be a little premature) so the 70 (not 50) year period has not even started to run yet.
In most countries ( I can't say for the USA which has some unique characteristics in regard to sound recording copyright*), the term of copyright protection in sound recordings commences from the date of first publication. So outakes will only enter the public domain 70 years (depending upon territory) after their publication. This may not include bootlegs as their publication was unauthorised and probably does not attract copyright protection. However the Beatles catalogue is now protected in the EU by the extended period of copyright from 50 to 70 years .
* Current legal opinion seems to be that in the USA sound recordings made prior to 1972 are protected under common law and thus are perpetually in copyright.
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- RE: Troubling Copyright Practice and Question....... - PAR 11/5/1702:11:28 11/5/17 (1)
- The Sonny Bono Copyright Extension - jaynemo 09:06:42 11/6/17 (0)
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