Re: copyright holder of "Birds" by Hitchcock

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000, Joy O'Shell <joshell[_at_]kentlaw.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Robert Cumbow <rcumbow[_at_]grahamdunn.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000, Rika Soopa <rika[_at_]kontuur.ee> wrote:
> > >
> > > Could you help me with the problem how to find out who is the
> > > copyright holder of the movie "The Birds" by Hitchcock, 1963.
> >
> > In the United States, copyright in a motion picture is held by the
> > studio that produced the film ...
>
> Would you also say that the copyrights to vintage radio transcriptions
> (commissioned musical phonograph recordings) produced by studios in
> the 1930's-1940's are held by the studio that produced the sound
> recordings? What if these studios are no longer in business and the
> radio transcriptions are abandoned? Who owns the right to reproduce
> those old master sound recordings?

This is a very different inquiry, since sound recordings were not covered by US Copyright law until the '70s. I defer to other list participants who are better equipped than I to opine on the ownership of recordings of old radio broadcasts.

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