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: Excess CopyrightRe:Sound Proposed Tariff for Use of Soundtracks in Theatres & TV Nixed (Again)
By Howard Knopf, Esq.
Re:Sound could not overcome the language of the Copyright Act which seems quite clearly intended to prevent this very result.
The definition of "sound recording" is as follows:
?sound recording? means a recording, fixed inany material form, consisting of sounds, whetheror not of a performance of a work, but excludes any soundtrack of a cinematographicwork where it accompanies the cinematographic work;The Copyright Board had previously ruled that there was no basis under the Copyright Act to impose these tariffs.
(emaphasis added)
Here's the Court's decision.
Here's the Board's decision.
HK
Full post as published by Excess Copyright on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).
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