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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
That is for the lawyers to determine. Look at how long the "Happy Birthday" song was kept under a copyright, due to a 1935, axillary (player piano roll) copyright.
One could say the the pure video portion, by itself may fall into copyright, but how many people would want, say Gone with the Wind without an audio soundtrack? Hollywood is really only concerned about sound pictures, that is where the real money is. This gives them an extension of at least 5 years, (for those from 1923 on).
The question is, how does one view a partial extension of copyright, in terms of the bet. The bet was couched in terms of all or none. We got something in the middle. . . .
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If you look up the definition of "Sound Recording" in the US Copyright Act, you find this:
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"Sound recordings" are works that result from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds, but not including the sounds accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, regardless of the nature of the material objects, such as disks, tapes, or other phonorecords, in which they are embodied.
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Since Steamboat Willie is a motion picture, the soundtrack is explicitly excluded from the extension of copyright in "sound recordings".
So no copyright extension yet.