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If the purchaser, the Internet Archive, digitizes the entire collection, do they have the legal right to stream the content to the world without paying royaltie

If the purchaser, the Internet Archive, digitizes the entire collection, do they have the legal right to stream the content to the world without paying royalties?

germinalphrase 7y ago
Seems like he just has a large collection of records, not the original ownership rights to the recordings - so, no.
- TedDoesntTalk 7y ago
  Then what will they do with the digitized content after it's been digitized?
  - pkaye 7y ago
    I think the IA is considered a library by California so they could do it within the limits of what a traditional library loans media contents out.
  - abricot 7y ago
    They keep a lot of stuff that is currently unavailable to the public. Maybe one day it will be out of copyright and then they can publish it quickly. In the mean time at least it is not lost.
SethTro 7y ago
They've been digitalizing media and only streaming it when it's outside of copyright. This means many 2050+ for recent music but ~1970s music and earlier is fair game.
- mgbennet 7y ago
  Copyright for sound recordings is pretty complicated in the US. Recordings from before 1972 were protected by a variety of state level laws, so even recordings that should be in the public domain, like ones from before 1924, weren't guaranteed to be so until the 2018 Music Modernization Act[1], and even so have a 3 year grace period from when that was enacted. It gets even more confusing for recordings from 1924-1978, when rights holders had to file for copyright and then file for extensions, AND the law has changed numerous times for different dates within that range.[2] So no, it's not really fair to say that 1970's and earlier music is fair game. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/new-music-modernization-act-has-major-fix-older-recordings-will-belong-public https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/new-music-modernizatio... [2] http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-sound-recordings.html http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-sound-record...

If the purchaser, the Internet Archive, digitizes the entire collection, do they have the legal right to stream the content to the world without paying royalties?

germinalphrase 7y ago

Seems like he just has a large collection of records, not the original ownership rights to the recordings - so, no.

TedDoesntTalk 7y ago
Then what will they do with the digitized content after it's been digitized?
- pkaye 7y ago
  I think the IA is considered a library by California so they could do it within the limits of what a traditional library loans media contents out.
- abricot 7y ago
  They keep a lot of stuff that is currently unavailable to the public. Maybe one day it will be out of copyright and then they can publish it quickly. In the mean time at least it is not lost.

SethTro 7y ago

They've been digitalizing media and only streaming it when it's outside of copyright. This means many 2050+ for recent music but ~1970s music and earlier is fair game.

mgbennet 7y ago
Copyright for sound recordings is pretty complicated in the US. Recordings from before 1972 were protected by a variety of state level laws, so even recordings that should be in the public domain, like ones from before 1924, weren't guaranteed to be so until the 2018 Music Modernization Act[1], and even so have a 3 year grace period from when that was enacted. It gets even more confusing for recordings from 1924-1978, when rights holders had to file for copyright and then file for extensions, AND the law has changed numerous times for different dates within that range.[2] So no, it's not really fair to say that 1970's and earlier music is fair game. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/new-music-modernization-act-has-major-fix-older-recordings-will-belong-public https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/new-music-modernizatio... [2] http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-sound-recordings.html http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-sound-record...