I decided it's not Christmas anymore here.
Above is a new find. (Ignore the video and just listen.) There's a Half-Handed Cloud song that mentions Emitt Rhodes, but I never really caught the reference. He's an interesting case. When he was like 16, he signed all of his works away for perpetuity, and so of course no one's heard him. His first record, released in 1970 on LP, sounds a bit like McCartney, and has never had an American CD release. Not being able to buy it on quality vinyl, I torrented it. And not being able to buy it, I don't feel the least sorrow in bypassing America's ridiculous copyright stance. I mean, 50 years + life? This stuff might as well be an orphaned work.
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Hey Cam,
here's a couple of handy-dandy charts that make sense of a technically complex set of overlapping copyright laws as to term of copyright. They give you the flavor of the difficulty of identifying term for older works – and they also provide you a pretty good way of answering the occasional question about whether some particular older work is in the public domain.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/
http://www.bromsun.com/practices/copyright-portfolio-development/flowchart.htm
"Fully enters the public domain on 15 Feb. 2067"
This is what I'm talking about! Absolutely unnecessary.
Nice chart. Thanks Ry.
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