[78-L] GoDigital MG lays claim to 1902 recording

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

As far as I know, Radio Spirits does license the recordings. Altho - 
there was an instance in which an attorney had sent cease and desist 
letters to OTR dealers. However, Amari refused to tell the dealers what 
shows he owned.  IIRC someone called the law firm where the letters 
originated and discovered that the attorney who had signed the letter 
did not exist. It got complicated. I do not know how this turned out and 
if the entire story was ever told, but Mr. Amari is no longer affiliated 
with RS. He solds RS in the late 90s.

Read more here:

http://adamelijah.hubpages.com/hub/Radio-Spirits

joe salerno

On 1/19/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Durenberger wrote:
> My question:  How does a company like Radio Spirits get away with their
> reselling old radio programs?
>
> http://www.radiospirits.com/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Durenberger
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:45 AM
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] GoDigital MG lays claim to 1902 recording
>
>> 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.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 1/19/2012 12:40 PM, Bill Knowlton wrote:
>>>
>>> Which raises a question.
>>>
>>> I see, and hear, all sorts of stuff on U-tube; film clips from early
>>> musicals, video performances, records of Uncle Josh, et. al et. al
>>>
>>> So how does this happen legally?
>>>
>>> If I were to put just one cut from an obscure out of print LP from, say,
>>> the late 1950s without "permission" from someone, what would happen?
>>>
>>> Just wondering.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Joe Salerno