The first fifty years free of copyright in Europe.

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04:01:03 The first fifty years free of copyright in Europe.
The laws of the European Community shall protect the copyright of an artist for 50 years (compared to 95 in the U.S.), which is about to open, here, the doors of the public domain in the early fifties and fine incisions people like Elvis Presley, Maria Callas and Ella Fitzgerald. This even though the original recordings were made in the USA. The majors have decided to move in two directions: look for economic agreements with the major labels bootleg and try to extend also in Europe the term of copyright on the works. Another question is imports, always in the States. It's easy, in fact, imagine that many European importers of discs you will hardly intimidated by the risks of the customs, in order to have the precious unreleased recordings that will be baked at the same time in Europe. According to the vice president of the RIAA, Neil Turkewitz, you should declare an embargo of similar products. VA then recalled that the fifties were an important watershed for the innovation of recording techniques, thanks to which the LP was born and with it the success of artists and rock opera (by Renata Tebaldi Chuck Berry), not talk about other milestones of jazz such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. To think that the release of these works is a good thing is also Lawrence Lessig, author of the seminal 'The Future of Ideas', which states that "when the works enter the public domain, the consequences are of extraordinary variety of supply and lowering of costs … [disks] will be sold in a myriad of different environments. "