[Dixielandjazz] CDs Made From LPs - A Shameless Advertisement

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In a message dated 10/15/03 10:23:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:

> >>Well, I finally done it!  I have restored 4 CD's worth of great music
> >>from my 1950-60s LP collection and posted them to eBay.  <snip>
> >
> > How you getting around the copyrights and royalties situation Bud ?
> 
> Specifically, one wonders if you've read the eBay policy on the selling
> of dubbed commercial recordings?  What you are doing is expressly
> prohibited by eBay.  Please, my friend, do yourself a favor by ending
> the sales before someone with similar concerns reports you.  I advise
> this course of action only because I once took the time to forage
> through the anything-but-helpful Help line, and found said express
> prohibition laid out quite clearly,
> -- 
> Etc,
> 
> Rev M J "Mike" Logsdon, Deacon
> http://www.naorc.org
> 
> 

Very simply Mike:

Ignore them totally.

I do not even know what CDs or songs Bud is offering, but it really does not 
matter, he will certainly not sell enough copies to warrant any civil lawsuit 
for copyright infringement, and more then likely will not sell enough copies 
to even warrant a letter from some lawyer at $250.00 per hour to challenge him 
for what he is doing.  Making available some historical recordings that are 
long out of print for the perpetuation of an art form and a specific style of 
music long ago abandoned by the copyright owners if you can even research and 
find them.

In his wildest dreams I can't imagine Bud thinking he could ever actually do 
more than recover a few bucks for his production time and costs of making the 
CDs and mailing them to the persons willing to compensate him for the not to 
be found else where recordings.

If the copyright owners were so concerned they would keep printing and 
distributing the product, obviously they do not feel there is a sufficient enough 
marketplace or buyers to warrant such a situation, therefore they would be 
rather stupid to even threaten to pursue a legal situation against a guy Like Bud 
for servicing a small market of collectors and or musicians looking for 
research materials to possibly re record and issue new releases that might actually 
sell enough recordings to bring them some royalties.

We live in a society with far too many outdated laws and policies that simply 
do not apply any longer, if you think for one minute that some copyright 
owner will be looking or ever hear of the CDs being offered by Bud then my friend 
you are sadly mis informed, they have given up looking for anybody to sell 
recordings of their stuff thirty to forty years ago and more than likely do not 
even know that they own it anymore, since they have not seen a royalty check 
for any of this stuff in probably forty years or more.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

So Sue me I need the Publicity, just spell my name correct, and by the way I 
am judgment proof.  I am a musician, and we all know they only make about 
13,000 a year man.  By US Government statistics.