[78-L] Happy Court Day to You

[Clifford Bolling]

I have posted thousands of recordings from 78 rpm records to YT and about 2/3 of them have
copyright holders in one form or another.  Copyrights can be for lyrics, composition, for a
specific recording or arrangement, and probably more.  
 
Some of my copyright 'infringements' are for recordings over 100 years old - early recordings (1905-1906) by
Caruso come to mind with copyright owners like IODA, SMG, ADSHARE MG, PIRAMES INTERNATIONAL.  
I've been thinking of compiling a list of the copyright holders for some of these very early recordings.
 
Did you know there is a copyright holding group called 'MUSIC RIGHTS COLLECTORS SOCIETY'?
 
CDB
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On 14/06/2013, Cary Ginell wrote: >I don't think restaurants have any clue that the song is copyrighted, >and Warner/Chappell is in such a disarray now that they can't go after >every restaurant that decides to sing it. I doubt very much that >restaurants are waving the red flag at W/C, daring them to charge. >It's just part of the growing ignorance of copyright law in the >entertainment world. There are tens of thousands of young composers >who are sampling existing, copyrighted compositions without getting >permission, and when they are asked about it, they get huffy and say >it is their First Amendment right to use it, claiming "free speech." >99% of Americans have no concept of what copyright means - literally, >"the right to copy." If the H.B. case goes to court and the court >determines that all of the money W/C has been charging people for a >public domain song for the last 78 years has been a fraud, can you >imagine the implications? Cary Ginell
 >When did the composer and lyricist die?  How long after the author's death does copyright persist in the US
nowadays ? I find it hard to believe that this song, as we know it, was composed by
somebody who died less than 75 years ago. Is anyone claiming copyright on Stephen Foster's songs ? Regards
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Don Cox doncox at enterprise.net  
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