[Free-sklyarov-uk] Corrupt CD's - Time for another protest/leafleting session?

[Andrew Rendle]

Chuck Heffner wrote:

>>>As to works that have passed the lapse time they are irrelevant. There
>>>
>is
>
>>>no copyright on them.
>>>
>>Precisely! So I should be able to copy them... but if a work I own has
>>
>lapsed
>
>>copyright, I can't copy it if it has "content protection".
>>
>
>I don't know how different it is in the UK, but both of these threads are
>inapplicable. For comment 1, the only creative works that have lapsed per
>copyright law are texts and visual works of art - there is no *recorded*
>music that has lapsed under copyright law in the US or the UK.
>(copright=lifetime of author plus 95 years). Hope you enjoy burning your
>copy of an early 20th century book.
>
I'm sure it's until 50 years after death (but IANAL).  But that is 
irrelevent, because when recordings with "content protection" enter the 
public domain, as they will do in time, the content protection will 
prevent them being copied.

Andrew