The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #146180 Message #3418554
Posted By: G-Force
12-Oct-12 - 08:56 AM
Thread Name: Bill Leader/Dave Bulmer
Subject: RE: Bill Leader/Dave Bulmer
There should simply be a "use it or lose it" law where ownership of recordings is concerned. If a label hasn't made something commercially available (and the law would have to be phrased to avoid getting around it by putting out a few dozen shoddy CDRs) for a long period of time and the recording has passed a certain age, the rights should revert to the artist. Let's say it's 25 years old and hasn't been available for 10, or something like that.
A bit like patent law. You may have a patent for your invention, but if you don't exploit your invention, your patent can be got round.