I should add that publishing still needs to be paid for - via MCPS in the
UK for any physical release.
Digital download wise it's not easy though as most aggregators don' like
dealing with PD and iTunes is increasingly awkward about accepting PD
recordings.
Full information here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-in-sound-recordings/copyright-in-sound-recordings
Richard
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 16:44, Mint Records <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Yes - as long as they were released before 31st December 1962 then yes.
> There are a great many PD labels in Europe.
>
> Also if something has never been released that falls out of copyright
> after 50 years so everything recorded but not released is now also PD.
>
> In Canada the law was changed two years later so everything before end of
> 1964 is PD there.
>
> Richard
>
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, 16:29 Shai Drori, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Does this mean that anyone can take pre 1962 recordings and release them
>> as CD or vinyl or cassette tapes in the EU legally?
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>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:01 AM Mint Records <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Downloafs are sent to stores via an 'aggregator' - like a digital
>>> distributor. You can make deals with companies directly but that is very
>>> time consuming and you have to have a very large back catalogue before
>>> they
>>> will talk to you.
>>>
>>> An aggregator will be able to supply to everyone you want them to anx to
>>> tge countries you want them to sell to.
>>>
>>> Some countries have agreements so publishing royalties are paid direct by
>>> the download stores, others - particularly the USA - insist that you
>>> make a
>>> deal yourself which makes it very difficult or impossible for you to sell
>>> European PD material as a download legally in the US.
>>>
>>> By the way UK and European copyright law was changed in 2012 to 70 years
>>> but that was not retroactive. Therefore everything RELEASED before the
>>> end
>>> of 1962 is now PD.
>>>
>>> Richard.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, 06:44 Steve Smolian, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Is anyone selling downloads of digital files of old recordings through
>>> > independent third party services?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I'm particularly interested in such services available to U.S. citizens
>>> > outside the U.S.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I just read through a summary of the English copyright law and, unless
>>> I
>>> > misread it, everything 1948 and before is now public domain there. It
>>> > seems
>>> > to say that even if you are a citizen of another country, the
>>> copyright law
>>> > of that country only applies up to the end of period of the relevant
>>> > English
>>> > law.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Is there a template to aid in listing such items?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I'm not a lawyer, just a greedy fellow. Any other greedy folks out
>>> there
>>> > with information? Names of services? Experiences? Payment issues?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Steve Smolian
>>> >
>>>
>>
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