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Under the 1988 Act, copyright in a sound recording expires (a) 50 years after the recording is made if it is then still unpublished, or (b) if the recording is published during that period then 50 years from the date of publication, or (c) if during the initial 50 years the recording is played in public or communicated to the public then 50 ...
The third ‘work’ is the ‘sound recording’ which is created when the musical work and the literary work are recorded onto a fixed medium. The producer responsible for the recording is deemed to be the ‘author’ of the sound recording.
In the European Union and Canada, sound recordings were copyrighted for 50 years until 2013. On 1 January 2013, the Beatles' single "Love Me Do" entered the public domain. [7] As of November 2013, European sound recordings are now protected for 70 years, which is not retroactive. [8] In 2015, Canada changed the copyright length to 70 years. [9]
As part of Save Our Sounds, between 2017 and 2022 'Unlocking Our Sound Heritage', a network of ten regional centres across the UK, was set up to digitise a wide range of recordings held in local archives, including music, radio broadcasts, drama, oral history and wildlife recordings.
PPL was founded by Decca Records and EMI and incorporated on 12 May 1934, [2] and undertakes collective rights management of sound recordings on behalf of its record-company [3] members, and distributes the fees collected to both its record company (rights holder) members and performer members. [3]
A sound recording has two separated copyrights: [3] the sound recording itself, also called the "master" sound recording ; this is most often owned or administered by the record label ; the composition of the musical work, which consists of the underlying lyrics and melody written by the songwriter ; this is most often owned or administered by ...
The Recording Industry Association of America has announced the filing of two copyright-infringement cases against the AI music services Suno and Udio based on what it describes as “the mass ...
70 years after release; if not released, 70 years after making (sound recordings). [239] Recordings which entered the public domain prior to 1 January 2013 are not retroactively covered. 50 years from end of calendar year when the broadcast was first made (broadcasts) [238]: s. 14 Yes [238]: s. 12, 13 United States [240]