Re: Aging rockers set to lose copyrights

[Teleri <teleriferchnyfain@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From what I've read, songwriters retain rights during
their lifetimes + 50 or 90 years.  This copyright feud
is about recordings, not the songs.  
BUT, seems to me that if, say, McCartney, Jagger or
Page doesn't want a song they wrote to be used behind
a commercial, how can a company use it just because
the copyright on the recording is gone?  The song is
still under copyright.
Don't understand that at all.
BB
Teleri

Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:06:07 +0000
From: "Eddie Lombardi" 
Subject: RE: Aging rockers set to lose copyrights
(Eventual Zeppelin 
Content)

I don't think either the Zep camp or the Stones camp
were fighting 
this.  I 
think it was Cliff Richard and some other people.

As songwriters though they would still be protected I
think.

I think there is a difference between publishing
rights and recorded 
rights 
here though.  i think its just the recording that will
lose copyright 
protection i.e. almost anyone will be able to release
the track 
legally.  
But I have a limited understanding of this area.

Anyone else have a better idea?

Eddie



 
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