Sound Recordings

From: Cumbow, Robert <RCumbow[_at_]GrahamDunn.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:40:44 -0700


When were sound recordings first covered by copyright?

Could a film maker use, in a film, a recording of a public domain musical work that was recorded before that date, without infringing? For example, say the Berlin Philharmonic made a recording of Mozart's 40th in 1953, and the film maker takes the performance from a famous-label LP distributed in 1953 and uses that for the music in her film. No infringement?

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