[78-L] MG lays claim to 1902 recording (David Lennick)

[Steve Williams]

I posted an Oscar Celestin (Columbia 14200) to YouTube: first I got the
standard Orchard Music copyright message, THEN I got a threatening letter
requiring me to remove it voluntarily due to copyright violation, or I would
get a black mark.  I guess therefore that anyone can go to BestBuy and buy
Celestin's "I'm satisfied You Love Me" thus I'm denying Sony etc. Thousands
of dollars in sales.  .....  I'm betting it was the Bee Gees song or some
such, because I sent an explanatory Email to YouTube and they retracted the
second violation.

Steve Williams

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>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:45:55 -0500
>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Re: [78-L] GoDigital MG lays claim to 1902 recording
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>It seems to me that it's been pretty clear for a number of years, sound
recordings in the US, no matter where they're made, are in copyright until
2067 and even the >"property of the parks department" is debatable. There
were discussions not long ago about a US company that had licensed reissues
from a UK label (which probably didn't >have legal rights but had reissued
them as PD, which they are over there) making claims against anyone else
using the recordings.