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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by EvanAnderson on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:03PM (#28516843)
It's also galling that this recording was made under a copyright regime that granted substantially shorter federal copyright terms and required renewal to achieve the maximum term. Creators, at that time, knew "the deal" and accepted it.

The intellectual commons has been (and is), literally, subject to "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." scenarios. That shouldn't have ever been acceptable. Since no "normie" has ever given a damn about copyright terms only those who were financially incented to care (read: holders of copyrights) got a say. They used their lobby to make the change happen.

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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by contravariant on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:15PM (#28516980)
Presumably we should look at all the good (?) Disney is doing with the money they've earned to truly appreciate why long dead artists should keep their copyright.
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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by puppet-master on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:54PM (#28518416)
Pulling their ads briefly from YouTube a few years back certainly achieved some good
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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by alliao on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:41PM (#28518332)
haven't you checked out their cruisers? they obviously need to do more to welcome the resurrection of walt disney the man himself in 2100. Preferably with world domination by then.
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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by razwall on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:31PM (#28519121)
What you say is mostly true, but in the case of sound recordings from before 1972, it's actually the opposite. At the time such recordings were made, they were subject to an infinite copyright term! The Music Modernization Act [1] passed in 2018 to put a finite life on those copyrights. As a result, all sound recordings from before 1923 become public domain this January.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act

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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by chuckee on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:19PM (#28519821)
> they were subject to an infinite copyright term!

If so, that law was unconstitutional:

"[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by razwall on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:57PM (#28520032)
It was common law copyright, not derived from the copyright clause of the Constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_copyright

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Re:YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 re... by EvanAnderson on Monday September 13, 2021 @10:14PM (#28519412)
That's why I qualified re: "federal copyright". Copyright of old sound recordings was a terrible mess for a long time.
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