European Copyrights Expiring
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European Copyrights Expiring on Recordings From 1950’s
By Anthony TommasiniEuropean copyright protection is expiring on a collector’s trove of 1950’s jazz, opera and early rock ‘n’ roll albums, forcing major American record companies to consider deals with bootleg labels and demand new customs barriers.
Already reeling from a stagnant economy and the illegal but widespread downloading of copyrighted music from the Internet, the recording companies will now face a perfectly legal influx of European recordings of popular works.
Want to guess what the RIAA’s response is to this?
“The import of those products would be an act of piracy,” said Neil Turkewitz, the executive vice president international of the Recording Industry Association of America, which has strongly advocated for copyright protections. “The industry is regretful that these absolutely piratical products are being released.”
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Posted to General Rants • 2003.01.03 (Fri) • 11:04
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Posted by cj 2003.01.03, 11:17
The RIAA really needs to back off when they’re wrong. And this time it’s obvious.
Posted by chas. 2003.01.04, 00:50
Neil Turkewitz Executive Vice President International Recording Industry Association of America
Dear Mr. Turdewitz,
In response to the pending expiration of European copyrights and your claim that “the import of those products would be an act of priracy”:
Blow me.
Sincerely, Blackbeard
Posted by Kris 2003.01.04, 10:37
Was so funny to see their site hacked a day or two ago. Can you spell htpassword?
Posted by mark 2003.01.04, 11:45
Interested to read that the American recording industry is supposedly “reeling” from people illegally copying music.
It’d take a lot more than today’s pirates to cause industry giants to so much as raise a sweat.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2003.01.06, 23:26
I agreed with you until I read the whole article. Although the copyright will expire in Europe, it will not expire in America for another 40 years or so. Turkewitz didn’t say that the Europeans shouldn’t have the music; he said that European-produced records imported into the United States would be a violation of the United States copyright…which it would be.
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