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

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi Gerry,

Thank you, as well as the others who responded, for confirming my 
suspicions.

Well, hypothetically, I have an ""Oldies" CD collection that I created by 
remastering 890 "new reissued" 45 rpm singles. Said "reissued" 45 rpm 
singles are identical to the originaly releases, not enhanced, frequency 
colorized, remixed to stereo etc. My goal was to remaster the "new" 45 rpm 
singles and end up with the songs on CD but otherwise identical to the vinyl 
original.

I have a forty CD collection, with 356 Artists and 890 songs. Absolutely 
fantastic workmanship and a thrill to the ears!

I purchased all the reissued 45 rpm singles "new" from a local store that 
specializes in old vinyl. Then I sold them back after I had remastered them 
to CD and listened to the end product. It goes without saying that I lost a 
considerable amount of money when I sold them back to the store from whence 
they came!

Now originally I remastered them to one of my two Sony DAT (Digital Audio 
Tape) decks. After I found out that I had advanced colon cancer in July of 
2003, I decided I needed to put my expensive masterpieces on a media other 
then DAT tapes! Hence, I purchased a high end CDRW deck by Sony and spent an 
entire month painstakingly replicating each DAT to CD. About 22 songs per 
CD.

I want to sell my forty CD collection. I can supply a play list of the 890 
songs with Artist/Title to interested parties upon request.

Thanks!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Steffens" <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: "'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back'" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Can One Sell A CD Remastered From Vinyl 
Legally?


> 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.
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> 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
>
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