[78-L] Not On Topic, But Advice Appreciated.

[Kristjan Saag]

Hi, Earl,
The new copyright law, which won't be effective before 2013-2014, 
doesn't affect your case. It aims to protect recordings that already 
have been released.
What you're up against, is the Rome Convention for the Protection of 
Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations, 
which, among other things, states:

"Performers (actors, singers, musicians, dancers and other persons who 
perform literary or artistic works) are protected against certain acts 
they have not consented to. Such acts are: the broadcasting and the 
communication to the public of their live performance; the fixation of 
their live performance; the reproduction of such a fixation if the 
original fixation was made without their consent or if the reproduction 
is made for purposes different from those for which they gave their 
consent."
--
That's what makes bootlegging illegal (but accepted by many artists if 
the think it serves their marketing profile). The protection, however, 
only lasts a minimum of 20 years. So it might be that your concert 
recordings are free to release by now in your country.
Kristjan





On 2011-09-25 21:28, Spats wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Not really on-topic but I thought you might have some knowledge about this.
>
> 30 years ago, I would prowl around London with my trusty Walkman and
> record veteran Jazz performers 'in concert', knowing they wouldn't be
> around forever.
>
> I recorded Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Snub Mosely, Benny Carter,
> Benny Waters, Earl Hines, Buddy Tate, Barney Bigard, Bill Coleman,
> 'Jabbo' Smith, Mary Lou Williams, Teddy Wilson (all live) among
> others...
>
> This week, I bought a new toy...a cassette player with a USB output
> and I've been listening to some amazing music in pretty acceptable
> sound quality and transferring it to digital format.
>
> I would love to put the music 'out' somehow, but don't know about the
> legalities involved, especially with the recent  change of law in
> Europe...
>
> Earl.
>
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