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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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