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Right, so it could be a long wait but are there any implications for The Sisters in view of this rule on unreleased material losing copyright after 50 years?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists ... se-w448931

So the clock is ticking for Far Parade?

they speak about 1967 atm, sisters bootlegs are many many years after that correct ?

It's only really an issue if there is more than 1 copy. The Pink Floyd stuff was widely circulated but to stop someone releasing it officially they had to act. If there had only been 1 copy and the band had it then it would probably never have seen the light of day.

The Sisters say they record all their gigs , to stop someone officially releasing audience recordings from 1981 in 2031 and onwards they would have to release the audience recording themselves or release the soundboard recording if they have one.

They could do it tomorrow for 5 mins to reactivate the copyright for 50 years if they felt like it.

iesus wrote:they speak about 1967 atm, sisters bootlegs are many many years after that correct ?

Yes, quite some time away yet but I will probably appreciate having something like this to look forward to listening to when I'm in the nursing home.

I have the strange feeling that would let things go without releasing anything of that before the 50 years

Copyright laws are shiit anyway.

The regular copyright is that something's protected until 70 years (some countries 50 or 100) after the maker DIED. In some cases that means more than 100 years after it was released. Totally idiotic.

I'd say 50 years of copyright protection after release is more than enough for any artist to get a living out of it. Moment of death should be irrelevant.

Aazhyd wrote:Copyright laws are shiit anyway.

The regular copyright is that something's protected until 70 years (some countries 50 or 100) after the maker DIED. In some cases that means more than 100 years after it was released. Totally idiotic.

I'd say 50 years of copyright protection after release is more than enough for any artist to get a living out of it. Moment of death should be irrelevant.

Generally i agree that copyright laws are s**t. Moment of Death is also big big s**t and break which stops new things come out. I should add "50 years of copyright protection after first release".

Pat wrote: The Sisters say they record all their gigs , to stop someone officially releasing audience recordings from 1981 in 2031 and onwards they would have to release the audience recording themselves or release the soundboard recording if they have one.

They could do it tomorrow for 5 mins to reactivate the copyright for 50 years if they felt like it.

Maybe The Sisters once said so, but there are loads of releases of their earlier gigs flowing steadily from Greece and Australia
on a variety of vinyls including box sets with shirts, photos and stuff, and loads of such gigs on CD from the UK.

PLUS the many releases of their more recent gigs from Brasil on CD, with and without box set.

I think they couldn't care less about any sort of copy right.