The Beatles Bible - Topic: Copyright Extension Soon To Be Extended? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/copyright-extension-soon-to-be-extended/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 vonbontee on Copyright Extension Soon To Be Extended? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/copyright-extension-soon-to-be-extended/#p43083 Recording and musicology http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/copyright-extension-soon-to-be-extended/#p43083 Hm, I don't see why that's so bad for anybody - except the would-be copyright-holders themselves, of course. Some people will still pay more for quality. And personally, I regard a 2-CD 1962-66 as a pretty pointless release - or, at least pointlessly bloated.

]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:56:50 +0100 meanmistermustard on Copyright Extension Soon To Be Extended? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/copyright-extension-soon-to-be-extended/#p43077 Recording and musicology http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/copyright-extension-soon-to-be-extended/#p43077 According to an article on the bbc the copyright of music performances should be extended from the current 50 years to 70 years very very soon. Good news for The Beatles as it means that that tracks like Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You that would have fallen into the public domain next year (2012) and be freely available to any record company for release will remain under the control of Apple and EMI. Therefore we wont have the otherwise guaranteed situation of a beatles song being freely available on every rubbish compilation album under the sun.

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