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In Reply to: Re: How far does the ruling reach? posted by rbolaw on November 3, 2005 at 17:40:01:
Essentially correct, even though the EU commission/parliament are reportedly under heavy lobbying pressure to extend it to 70 years here too.From a collector's viewpoint, the existing expiry term has brought about a number of positive effects:
- some major companies (such as EMI) have been forced to reissue a good deal for their historical recordings at more competitive prices to deal with "alternative" versions;
- the same companies (such as the Universal group) appear more willing to make available for licensing and re-issue by minor companies recordings that are approaching the 50 years term and would otherwise be secluded in their vaults with no hope of being reissued ever;
- "alternative" versions often compete with one another in qualitative terms and are offering very good reissues that "majors" were never able to provide. BTW a good deal of "official" reissues are based on rather worn out pressing masters, while certain competing reissues are obtianed by "picking up" never-played pristine pressings that offer a largely superior quality of reproduction.
L.
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