[Vintage-Audio] Can One Sell A CD Remastered From Vinyl Legally?

[Gerry Steffens]

One of the things that was cleared up during the Napster thing about 6 years
ago was, yes selling or even "sharing" with no dollars changing hands was
definitely illegal.  There is more that truck loads of fodder out there with
opinions running both ways, but the legal end is yup!  It is not legal.  A
rather close relative was one of the targets of the Napster roust.  It was
explained to her by the legals involved that copying to tape from a record
to have available in the car was technically probably not legal either.  I
believe that the latter has now been OKed but I do not know.

Remember, that through BMI, ASCAP and others there are composers, lyricists
and performers or their successors to be compensated.  Remember Yoko Ono's
business transactions selling Beatles rights to Michael Jackson.

Someone inherited the rights to Cramer's stuff.

I have been told but not verified that more recently congress has extended
the time of copyright even longer than previous.  Seems something, maybe old
original TV shows, was coming into the public domain.  They fixed that.


Gerry