Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright

“The rarest recordings – ie the ones not previously available on bootlegs – have a dial-tone-like sound as loud as the music,”<p>An interesting ruling might be only the dial-tone version had it’s copyright extended as the original had not been released.

&gt;Others, perhaps less eager to share early, unfinished versions of songs with the world, have pushed what it means to “publish” tracks: a Bob Dylan compilation, literally published as “The Copyright Extension Collection, Volume 1”, was also released in 2013 in an edition of 100, and only sold in Europe.<p>Reminds me of the candor of the title of &quot;Monty Python&#x27;s Contractual Obligation Album&quot;!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monty_Python%27s_Contractual_Obligation_Album" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monty_Python%27s_Contractual_O...</a><p>&gt;Monty Python&#x27;s Contractual Obligation Album is the final studio album by Monty Python, released in 1980. As the title suggests, the album was put together to complete a contract with Charisma Records. Besides newly written songs and sketches, the sessions saw re-recordings of material that dated back to the 1960s pre-Python shows I&#x27;m Sorry I&#x27;ll Read That Again, The Frost Report, At Last The 1948 Show and How To Irritate People. One track, &quot;Bells&quot;, dates from the sessions for Monty Python&#x27;s Previous Record, while further material was adapted from Eric Idle&#x27;s post-Python series Rutland Weekend Television. The group also reworked material written but discarded from early drafts of Life Of Brian, as well as the initial scripts for what would eventually become The Meaning Of Life.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=er52v69ru98&amp;list=PL991B848D05CAEFA9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=er52v69ru98&amp;list=PL991B848D0...</a><p>There&#x27;s also a rare unreleased Monty Python Album called &quot;The Hastily Cobble Together for a Fast Buck Album&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Hastily_Cobbled_Together_for_a_Fast_Buck_Album" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Hastily_Cobbled_Together_f...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qH5dsItjL84" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qH5dsItjL84</a>

There was a &#x27;copyright extension&#x27; release in 2013 for many early Beatles bootleg&#x2F;outtakes, but none since. (I now see the article mentions it). They&#x27;ve done larger &quot;deluxe&quot; remastering of later albums with bonus tracks that probably would have gone in to &#x27;copyright extension&#x27; releases otherwise. Still would be nice to get some more outtakes&#x2F;alternate versions and remasters of pre-pepper albums.<p>The Beach Boys&#x27; organization has done at least one of these every December for the last several years (this December there were only 3 tracks on it, which was a bit disappointing). These are mostly &#x27;streaming only&#x27; (apple, google, Spotify, etc), and many hard core fans grumble for vinyl or at least CD physical releases, but I think that&#x27;s generally going to be a lost cause.<p>Didn&#x27;t know about the Dylan &quot;copyright extension&quot; release...<p>ABCKO doing this - maybe too cheap to mount a real marketing&#x2F;sales effort around these? or just don&#x27;t know what to do with them? or have something larger planned coming up soon?

Why even bother extending the copyright? If they haven&#x27;t released it in the past 50 years, are they going to release it in the next 20? Why not release it now? Do they expect that in 10 years, the increased sales (for whatever reason) would offset the loss of 10 years of copyright?

This should be disqualified as a &quot;release&quot;.

This happened with The Wheel of Time TV tights too; whichever company owned them released a piece of shit single episode pilot and nothing else, solely to keep the rights

How are people keeping so up-to-date on when works are going public domain? Is there some resource I don&#x27;t know about?

From the article:<p>&gt;[The YouTube channel] offers no clues as to its identity – save a YouTube-mandated email address<p>Does anyone know where can I see this “YouTube-mandated email address”? I tried to contact another channel privately before, and I just didn’t know how to do it.

&gt; <i>Under EU law, sound recordings are covered by copyright for the first 50 calendar years after they were made – unless they have been “lawfully communicated to the public”, in which case the copyright term extends a further 20 years.</i><p>So it&#x27;s not a trick to extend the copyright. You can imagine that the copyright last 70 years, but you can loose it after 20 years before if they don&#x27;t do anything. So they do something to ensure the full length.

Not different than Disney releasing new versions of many of their old films in CGI.