BB Stuff moving out of copyright? (maybe only in the EU, if at all...)

[Matt Bielewicz]

This article from the UK's Guardian newspaper is interesting... and yeah, I know it's about the Beatles, but bear with me!

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/12/beatles-copyright-apple-release-tracks

Might this start to affect booted Beach Boys tracks in the EU over the next couple of years? If so, perhaps we might see a load of EU-only limited archival releases of formerly booted Beach Boys tracks in order to achieve similar copyright extensions...?

OK, I admit it, I have no idea whether this will happen, and there might be any number of legal ways to get around it, particularly given that the artists in this case were not from the EU and the original recordings were not made there either.

But given that there is a LOT of as-yet officially unreleased BB material that has been booted within the EU nonetheless (anyone remember a few CDs by the name of Sea Of Tunes...? no, thought not)...

Ah, who knows, perhaps Beach Boys Central might be getting a dusting off for some official releases of long-booted stuff over the next few years...? It does seem mad that track 13 on Disc 3 of Volume 8, to pick one notorious example, has *still* not got an official release after all these years...   

[Freddie French-Pounce]

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,16859.0.html

[Matt Bielewicz]

Blimey. I honestly didn't know about The Big Beat when I wrote that! I haven't been here much lately and although I saw the thread title, I figured it was just about some live show of the Boys from 1963 being released, or something... and skipped it!

So it IS happening. And as the 2010s roll by in real time, we should get one of these a year, unless the law changes again! Amazing!

[Andrew G. Doe]

Moral of this tale: read all the threads. 

[zachrwolfe]

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[Fall Breaks]

Yeah, me too. Second moral: name threads appropriately.