Re: using music (copyright issues)

Remind me never to get in a game of legal trivia pursuit with you guys.
Glad you are on our side. ;->


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Webb" <bobwebb2(at)webbcounsel.com>
To: <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: using music (copyright issues)


> And even if the copyright on the music or lyrics has expired, the actual
> recording/performance by a particular artist is still protected, i.e. a
1999
> recording by the National Symphony of Beethovan is protected, but a 1930
> phono  recording  (assuming you still have equipment to play it)  is not.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ivan Hoffman" <ivan(at)ivanhoffman.com>
> To: "Bryan Bateman" <batemanb(at)home.com>; "Robert Clendaniel"
> <robert(at)baylogic.com>; "Hwg-Business@Hwg. Org" <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: using music (copyright issues)
>
>
> > At 05:07 PM 11/17/00 -0000, Bryan Bateman wrote:
> > >I thought that music after some period of time was public domain.
> >
> > Not for decades and decades.  Read "When Do Copyrights Expire?" on my
> site.
> >  Click on "Articles for Writers and Publishers."  And certainly not
> Gershwin.
> >
> >
> > IVAN HOFFMAN, B.A., J.D.
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> > Internet Law, Copyrights, Trademarks, Publishing Law, Corporate Training
> > and Online Education Law, Web Design Law, Recording and Music Law.  *A 5
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