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Old 09-29-2013, 01:37 PM   #128
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
No Radio recordings from Californa or New York, (and certain other states, it varies from state to state) will be in the public domain until 2067. Period. No exclusions. These copyrights are performace copyrights under state laws that were subsumed into Federal law. (1989? Shrug). They were alway based on at set date in the future - usually 2047. And that is even if the scripts were works-for-hire and allowed to expire after 28 years, (no guaratee of that) the performance copyright holds until 2067. No PG or equivalent is possible.
There are a hell of a lot of US radio programmes from the 1940s onwards at http://www.archive.org. They claim to be in the public domain.
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