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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Sohn" <[log in to unmask]> > There is a big difference between Artists and > Businesspeople, and when they interact, it is usually the > businesspeople who get the long end of the stick. > As far as I know, the copyright term in the US is life of > the author +75 years. > This is, indeed, the length of the US copyright...on (AFAIK) published text works (i.e. books & the like)...! The copyright in SOUND RECORDINGS is a totally different animal...and is/was complicated by the fact that sound recordings WERE NOT...in fact COULD NOT BE...subject to copyright at all...! Sound recordings were "protected" by a vast array of state (usw.) laws forbidding the "piracy" (that is, illicit copying and sale) of phonorecords (IIRC, only Vermont lacks/ed such legislation...?!). Current copyright legislation concerning sound recordings leaves them under "existing protection" until 1/1/2067, after which only post-1972 recordings will be protected by copyright, leaving everything else essentially p.d...! Now...IS or IS NOT the UK copyright term on sound recordings being extended from 50 to 95 years? Much of the rest of the non-US world (currently including Canada...!) uses the old 50-year term...! Steven C. Barr