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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by mattl on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:37AM (#29473561)
Yeah. New Order are still making good money from Blue Monday from 1983, and clearly there’s a lot of interest in The Beatles still.

Maybe a shorter period of time with an option to extend it like a snooze feature on an alarm clock.

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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by vmception on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:44AM (#29473658)
The option to extend it being priced by the royalties collected and requiring substantial accounting of such.

Patents, for example, have maintenance fees that are quite high. So even that 20 year length is not really automatic and guaranteed, while already seen as problematically long to many.

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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by mnsc on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:43AM (#29473651)
But does having a work enter public domain automatically mean that eg New Order will stop getting paid for streams via legitimate services like Spotify?
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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by criddell on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:57AM (#29473900)
Why would Spotify pay anybody for playing a public domain song?
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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by mattl on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:06PM (#29479319)
Presumably if they want to have access to the non-PD stuff they’d have to figure out something.
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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by mnsc on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:13AM (#29474202)
Good point! :D
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Re:All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US publ... by mattl on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:53AM (#29473832)
That’s something that’s probably not been figured out yet. Probably won’t be figured out until popular stuff from the 50s and 60s starts hitting PD.
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