Klarinet Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 1999/03

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] A silent Act of Congress - The Mickey Mouse copyright extension
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:39:33 -0500

But Europe apparently hasn't followed suit. Interesting.....
Roger S.

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, David Blumberg wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:18:43 -0500
> From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] A silent Act of Congress - The Mickey Mouse copyright extension
>
> US. Congress recently managed to pass a "silent act" that makes music
> copyrighted
> after 1924 not public domain for 95 years instead of the current 75. Why?
> Because Disney's Mickey Mouse was coming up to the end of its copyright. So
> Disney lobbied to Congress to extend it's copyright. Problem was that all
> copyrights had to be extended to allow that. So without as much as a peep,
> Congress made a "silent act" of extending the Copyright laws to 95 years.
> How unfortunate. Works (like Ravel, Gershwin) that would have had a chance
> at being re-released, or re-arranged will now have to wait another 20 years.
> It is called in the publishing industry the "Mickey Mouse Act".
>
>
>
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