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Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain
- sverhagen 5y agoPer that article and one it links to, there seems 100 year old (1922) and 50 year old (1972) music to be coming into the public domain, and I'm wondering why this happens in bulk on January 1st and not x years after whatever release date mid-year?
- namibj 5y agoI don't remember ever seeing a copyright date more granular than the year, in any copyright notices on blogs and source code.
- kadoban 5y agoFrom everything I've ever heard, copyright notices don't mean a lot though, in that regardless of if I put one on my website or not, I still have a copyright on my works.
- kibwen 5y agoWell, at least in the US, copyright wasn't automatic until 1978, which is important context when discussing works from 50 or 100 years ago.
- AlbertCory 5y agoFor a good time, peruse [1]. At Google, I was running the Cinema Club (in-person only showings of movies on DVD every Thursday night). I came across this movie and loved it. It had 4 stars from Roger Ebert. How you gonna beat that? Lots of people including me wanted to show it at Google. It turns out that Ms. Paley had figured her 12 songs from the 1920s must be out of copyright, right? Wrong. The songs were not, and the publisher asked for (if memory serves) $40K or so per song. Rather than negotiate it down and use that 4-star review to make $$$ from it, she did this Creative Commons thing. But you can't give away what you don't own. Google's lawyer said No. She did some more complicated stuff, and the lawyer said "I've spent an hour trying to figure this out, and it's way more time than I should spend. So: still No." It's a fun movie, though. Watch it. [1] https://www.sitasingstheblues.com/ https://www.sitasingstheblues.com/
- lotsofpulp 5y agoInteresting link, thanks for sharing!
- Axien 5y agoSo what software can be used to clean up the hissing and cracking?
- Zenst 5y agoAudacity
- kadoban 5y agoI'm curious how https://jmvalin.ca/demo/rnnoise/ https://jmvalin.ca/demo/rnnoise/ would do. Might work.
- pkAbstract 5y agoThese days, there are more audio plugins to add hissing and cracking than remove it; but iZotope RX is scarily good and the best noise removal plugin I've ever tried. ML has enabled a lot of pretty revolutionary capabilities in audio, songwriting, and music production over just the past couple years.
- kingcharles 5y agoAdobe Audition is good for this, but I'm sure other free offerings like Audacity can do it. In Audition you can sample a quiet section of the audio to fingerprint the type of noise and then apply that noise reduction across the whole track.
- technothrasher 5y agoAudacity has the same "fingerprint" feature for noise reduction and it works pretty well.
- teeray 5y agoSo what has Disney done this year to contort our public domain laws?
- kibwen 5y agoNothing new so far, Steamboat Willie isn't scheduled to enter the public domain until 2024. And considering only the properties that Disney actually cares about, Snow White has until 2032. Let's also keep in mind the difference between copyright and trademark; even if art containing Mickey Mouse enters the public domain, that doesn't mean that Disney loses the trademark to Mickey Mouse. AIUI you would be able to reproduce Steamboat Willie verbatim, but if you attempt to publish a new work derived from Steamboat Willie that includes Mickey Mouse they may be able to stop you based on trademark protections.
- MichaelBurge 5y agoI think including a "Not official Disney merchandise" warning would get past any trademark concerns, since the goal of trademarks is preventing confusion between similar products.
- wgjordan 5y ago> AIUI you would be able to reproduce Steamboat Willie verbatim The cynic in me suspects that even this might be challenged. Is there anything specifically preventing trademark protections from applying to unauthorized verbatim reproduction, and only derived works?
- kibwen 5y agoThe goal of trademark is to protect one's reputation by preventing other people from attributing work to you that you did not authorize. Disney unambiguously did authorize Steamboat Willie and its representation of Mickey Mouse, so a verbatim reproduction clearly cannot cause consumer confusion. Trademark law does not need to specifically prevent it, because there's no trademark violation in the first place. Only once you start making unauthorized changes to the source material does there start to be an argument that you are threatening Disney's reputation. Of course, just because using trademark in this way is nonsensical doesn't mean that Disney won't try and/or succeed. But it would be pretty outrageous. The only reason to entertain this notion at all is because Disney's past actions regarding copyright have been outrageously evil to begin with.
- Zenst 5y agoI was curious as to how much music is in the public domain with a per year breakdown. Equally, how much is released straight into the public domain per year these days compared to older copyrighted material lapsing into the public domain. Alas a quick search yielded nothing standout at all data wise.
- analog31 5y agoDoes anybody know how this affects performance rights?
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- foxhop 5y ago