[78-L] European Sound Recording Copyright Extension^

[David Lennick]

Wouldn't Ferde Grofe's arrangement be copyrighted? George orchestrated the 
Concerto (with William Daly?), An American in Paris and the subsequent concert 
works.

dl

On 9/16/2011 4:44 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> I'm not sure. I believe I recall hearing that certain George Gershwin works were protected by the Ira side of the estate by making minute changes to the music so that it could be re-copyrighted as an arrangement. I could be way off base on this, but there were some instances where George-only works had their copyrights extended in this manner.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:57:51 -0400
>> From: jeffsultanof at gmail.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] European Sound Recording Copyright Extension^
>>
>> Hasn't Rhapsody in Blue been P.D. in England since 1988?
>>
>> Jeff Sultanof
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Julian Vein<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> On 16/09/11 02:08, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>>> Any composition that was going to expire after its 75 year term was up
>>> (e.g. Rhapsody in Blue, which would have gone P.D. on January 1, 2000), now
>>> has an extra 20 years tacked onto its life. Copyrighted works published
>>> before January 1, 1978 are NOT grandfathered into the Life + 70 rule - for
>>> the U.S., that is. As an example, under the current law, Rhapsody in Blue
>>> will go into the public domain IN THE U.S. on January 1, 2020, 95 years
>>> after it was copyrighted. For the rest of the world, Rhapsody in Blue will
>>> go P.D. on January 1, 2018, or 70 years after the death of Gershwin. So the
>>> rarity is that a song will go P.D. for the rest of the world BEFORE it does
>>> so in the States.
>>>>
>>>> Cary Ginell
>>>>
>>> =======================
>>> I'm gonna open up pressing plants in South Georgia and Ascension Island
>>> and see what happens!