Re: Project on Yizkor book

[Kame'a Media <media...>]

Marvin:

Can you elaborate, please?

The last time I checked, U.S. copyright (in the case of songs, anyway)
extended up until 50 years after the death of the last
writer/composer(s).
Are you saying this has now automatically been amended to 75 years?
If so, it would mean that a lot of musicians and record companies now owe

the estates of deceased writers and composers a lot of royalties.
Plus the printed information regarding copyright notices on a lot of
future re-issues will have to be amended.

What happens to, say, all the  material that  has been categorized as
Public Domain ( after the 50 -year  period) but is still within the
75-year timeframe?
Does it fall out of Public Domain and back into private ownership?


Or does the new 75-year period only affect new work published after a
certain date?

How does this affect the use of material created  by writers who were
based in countries other than the U.S.  and whose songs were published
and/or registered with "foreign" performing rights societies, --  when
used  by
U.S. artists and record companies today?

Thanks in advance for any clarifications.

Wolf Krakowski

Kame'a Media
www.kamea.com
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Marvin Margoshes wrote:

> Yes, it is true.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:23 AM
> Subject: FW: Project on Yizkor book
>
> >Someone on another list wrote that the US is now extending copyright
> >from 50 to 75 years.   Does anyone here know if this is true?
> >
> >
> >Reyzl
> >
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