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

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Gerry Steffens wrote:
> 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

Agreed.  Selling, loaning, etc. is probably not legal.


> 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.

They keep extending it every time Mickey Mouse is about to become public
domain under intense pressure from Disney Studios...

Mike