Happy Copyright Extension Has Stolen Our Right To Have Coltrane In The Public Domain Day
but not happy at all about it.
@kkebreau @djsundog "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
@nightpool @kkebreau my favorite copyright statement of all time
@djsundog @nightpool @kkebreau Who was that? I think they are my new favorite people.
@jessmahler @nightpool @kkebreau that was Woody Guthrie and he is definitely one of my favorite people. hard to be more outwardly subversive than the Guthrie generations imo.
@kkebreau @djsundog @nightpool Dammit, they extended sound copyright in Canada to 100 years in 2012 it looks like. :(
@nightpool @djsundog @kkebreau
for sound recordings created before 1965, 50 years after fixation, but if the sound recording is published before the copyright expires, 50 years after its publication (but only where copyright expires before 2015).[36]
for sound recordings created otherwise, 50 years after fixation, but if the sound recording is published before the copyright expires, the earlier of 70 years from its publication or 100 years from fixation.[36]
@Canageek @nightpool @kkebreau too damn long! 100 years of vexation!
@kkebreau @djsundog @nightpool Since he died in 1967, MOST of his stuff came into public domain here already.
Also looks like most of the time it would be 70 years, I missed the 'earlier of' line.
@Canageek @kkebreau @nightpool yet another reason for Sundogistan to slowly drift northward ;)
@djsundog @kkebreau @nightpool We are about to change our laws to move all our copyright to Life+70 :(
@djsundog @kkebreau @nightpool Still FAR less then the USA though....
Canadian July 2018 law change (Hint: Legallization)
@nightpool @kkebreau @djsundog And um, I've never used it, but a lot of people around here are the fact we are legalizing pot this summer?
@djsundog ????