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?
>
>
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> I'm particularly interested in such services available to U.S. citizens
> outside the U.S.
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> 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.
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> Is there a template to aid in listing such items?
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>
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> I'm not a lawyer, just a greedy fellow.  Any other greedy folks out there
> with information?  Names of services?  Experiences?  Payment issues?
>
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> Steve Smolian
>