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----- Original Message ----- From: "D P Ingram" <[log in to unmask]> > On 17 maj 2007, at 15.41, Karl Miller wrote: > > > Let me know how much money you would need to start up such a > > service. Assuming such a site would be subject to the European > > copyrights, I have plenty of broadcast material, still covered by > > US copyrights, that I would be happy to make available at no charge. > > > Hi... seems that (according to some off list) mail Finland might be > tightening up its rules as well as the EU at large. I think the whole > legal side needs to be examined as obviously the broader audience as > possible amongst collectors who can contribute material is desirable, > but if one takes a risk just because a U.S. user can get the material > and thus bring the house of cards down if someone wanted to prove a > point. Are the laws any clearer in Canada :) > Per sound-recording copyright terms they are...however, there is no guarantee of how long the 50-year term will continue, since CRIA is a willing "lap dog" for RRIA and the current Federal government is trying to suck up to Dubya, et al, to the greatest extent possible! Currently, the RRIA...as a willing agent for Sony-BMG...is in panic mode, since this coming December 31 will see the first "hit records" of one Elvis Presley enter the public domain in countries which use the once-nearly-worldwide 50-year copyright term. After all, when one of one's "cash cows" is threatened by rustlers, one burglar-proofs one's barn! The tragedy is that the recording industry wants to recreate the US concept of "eternity plus a century or two" copyright to every land which might be able...now or at some future date...to press reissue CD's (or mass-burn CD-R's...!). This basically guarantees that 99.9% of our sound-recorded history will forever go unheard...the industry won't reissue it, since it won't guarantee the mega-profits they dimly recall (and want back again...?!) BUT, they won't allow anyone else to reissue it for fear of "establishing a precedent"...! Net result: expect a continuing flood of reissued "name" artists (Elvis, Glenn Miller, usw.)...but DON'T expect a complete retrospective on Paul Christinsen and his Hotel Fort Des Moines Orchestra (all one records) anytime soon...! Steven C. Barr