In Europe, sound recordings enter the public domain 50 years after their initial release.
WSJ: Copyright Protection That Serves to Destroy | Sightings by Terry Teachout
Sound recordings and moving images in any form are vulnerable, and easily discarded or deliberately destroyed.
The issue of performance royalties for sound recordings is not a new one.
Sound recordings revealed that the snapping sound occurred well after the claw itself had closed, when the bubble collapsed.
The American people, through the nation's library, will receive a post-holiday gift of vintage sound recordings from one of the world's largest recording companies.
The deal is the first time any radio company has agreed to pay performance royalties to a record label for use of their sound recordings.
It houses unique archive material, rare manuscripts, artwork, photographs, books and original sound recordings, but only 140 out of 950 artefacts are currently on display.
Given the present state of the economy, I can't imagine that anyone on Capitol Hill sees the preservation of sound recordings as a top priority.
WSJ: Copyright Protection That Serves to Destroy | Sightings by Terry Teachout
The additions of these recordings will significantly broaden the scope of the site and enhance the Library's already unprecedented authority to stream commercially owned sound recordings online.
The Convention relates to copyright protection for sound recordings.
And at music concerts, picture phones have replaced lighters held aloft and many users have used the mobiles to MMS images as well as sound recordings to friends instantaneously.
Since the nominations are posted on the Programme's Website, illustrations such as photographs or slides (TIFF, GIF, JPEG formats), and sound recordings (real-media) should be included in the submission.
Why can't we treat sound recordings the same way?
WSJ: Copyright Protection That Serves to Destroy | Sightings by Terry Teachout
The law is far from clear, but some clarity may come as the authors of post-1972 sound recordings begin to exercise their termination rights (which I have previously discussed here and here).
Clayton worked with all of them but most notably Lucas and his Skywalker Ranch studios inMarin County, California, where he engineered sound recordings, which included the first recordings at Skywalker Sound with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).
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The Library of Congress and the Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today the donation of more than 200, 000 historic master recordings-many long out-of-print or never released-to the Library's Recorded Sound Section, which has more than 3 million sound recordings in its collections.
The symposium and exhibition are being organized to mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, which is yearly observed on 27 October to increase global attention for the need to preserve the world's inheritance of still and moving images and of sound recordings.
This deal avoids the possible legislative fight through privately negotiated terms, which could set the stage for either similar deals in the future or for Congress to side with the record labels and require the payment of performance royalties for sound recordings by law.
However, Universal argued because most of the recordings at issue were created before 1972 (the year Congress first provided federal copyright protection to sound recordings), the federal copyright laws do not apply and the safe harbor provision of the DMCA is unavailable to Grooveshark.
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The donation of the UMG archive to the Library of Congress is a major gift to the nation that will help maintain the inter-generational connection that is essential to keeping alive, in our collective national memory, the music and sound recordings meaningful to past generations.
Regarding Napster's claim that its users were not infringing copyright because sharing copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings via the Napster service is protected by the "fair use" doctrine, the court held that the four fair use factors in the Copyright Act tip the balance in the record companies' favour.
Now, using the Pure i-20, and its built-in DAC, recordings sound just as good as CDs played on my very respectable NAD C542 compact disk player (my other not-too-new components are a NAD 7100 stereo receiver and Paradigm Studio 20 v. 4 speakers).
The HD PVR 2 GE Plus adds SPDIF and full surround sound audio to game recordings.
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Approval ratings are as important as tape recordings, sound bites as powerful as subpoenas.
The list also features a number of such rarely heard recordings as the sound of a talking doll captured by Thomas Edison in 1888 - the earliest known commercial sound recording.
Earlier this year, the Library of Congress unveiled an extensive plan to help libraries and archives nationwide preserve recorded sound to guard against losing historic recordings.
It was in the church that Williams met Shirley Ann Lee, a gospel singer who provided Double U Sound with some of its most successful recordings.
I'd like to play one of your rhythm and blues recordings that has a very gospel sound to it.
Instead, he includes samples of original field recordings, looped over layers and layers of ambient sound and gentle instrumentation.
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