The 35-year rule on copyright ownership in the US
Is everyone else familiar with this? Because this article
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/popcast-new-owners-for-vintage-hits/
is the first I'd heard of it.
It seems a US law passed in 1978 meant that the copyright to music (actually not sure if it covered other works) reverted to the author after 35 years, meaning stuff released in 1978 will now revert to the songwrighters, presuming they put in the necessary legal legwork.
Not sure how much of a difference this will make, though. Listening to the podcast they all seem fairly sure the artists will just licence their stuff back to their own labels for a healthy fee, which is probably what I'd do.
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presumably this refers to the songs themselves and not the actual recordings?
That's correct. You don't get the masters, you just control its use and so forth.
I guess the big winners might be Indie films and community/charity projects who could start to see the chance to use big, popular songs with no worries about huge fees imposed arbitrarily.
is it because of this sort of thing that the wonder years was never made on dvd?
think it might be true for an EU release of freaks and geeks as well. maybe they can happen
happens with a lot of TV shows that use non-original music extensively
it took years and years for Daria to come out on DVD - all of the music in the show was from songs popular when it was made - and in the end they just replaced them all with soundalikes
have held off on buying daria
for this exact reason.
some reviews suggest that it's not that noticeable (apart from a couple of instances) and that it doesn't affect viewing enjoyment. i remain sceptical.
anyone here watched the DVDs and able to offer an opinion?
Don't know about the DVD but watched a few episodes on Netflix and can't say I noticed the music at all, I don't think the music on daria was integral at all alot of it was just used as a little bit before the commercial. The worst for this is northern exposure seasons 2 onwards, the music on that was so well chosen and important
first series of Sugar Rush had such a good soundtrack, it made the show
then the DVD version was all plain old stock music (albeit good examples of the form) and it pissed me off no end :(