Mike is right, but all this applies to New York only! New York courts in a New York case. Beyond that , who knows? James >>> [log in to unmask] 06/21/05 1:46 PM >>> At 11:16 AM 6/21/2005 -0500, Karl Miller wrote: >As for protesting...pity we don't have the money to lobby instead. I >wonder, what leverage do libraries, archive, and small record labels >really have. God bless Naxos for putting up a fight with Capitol. In what follows and similar efforts, please be aware that IANAL - I am not a lawyer. My comments are based on having read the documents and on some private dialogue with Klaus Heymann. There is a real danger that 'we' may win the Naxos case and lose the cause. Capitol is at a great disadvantage in this instance because there is a letter formally renouncing all interest in recordings made before 1956 which are out of copyright in their country of origin. If my understanding is correct, the court could decide that common law applies, that reissues in general are the exclusive right of the copyright holder, but that Capitol loses this case because of that letter. In most respects, that's the worst of all worlds. All the issues of general relevance will have been decided in favor of the record companies, but there would be no avenue of appeal from Naxos because they had 'won'. Mike -- [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/