Copyright & Artisan Radio

ArtisanRadio · 2025-01-07T23:10:30Z

Here is the tentative playlist schedule for the new Artisan Radio - Nostalgia is our middle name - and some of the copyright issues we've encountered. Our goal is to play only material that is in the public domain in Canada and the U.S. Historical Classical Vocal recordings 1924 & earlier. The U.S. Music Modernization Act places all of these in the public domain in the U.S. Virtually all are also in the public domain in Canada (sound recordings 50 years from publication, music compositions life of composer(s) + 50 years, up to 1971) Vintage Jazz, plus the roots of jazz including blues, ragtime, etc. 1924 & earlier. The same as #1, but care has to be taken to ensure that the composer rule of Canada (life + 50 years) is met. Popular music using the Whitburn 'charts' 1924 and earlier. Although there really were no standardized charts at the time, music historian Joel Whitburn has compiled a list of the most popular records for these years. Copyright issues the same as #2. Book readings from works defined as being in the public domain in the U.S. by Project Gutenberg, and created by Librivox, which has placed the vocals in the public domain as well. Care has to be taken that the Canadian rule of life + 50 years applies. That will generally be the case, but a number of literary works in the U.S. have entered the public domain because they either weren't registered, or that registration renewed (Canada has no such requirement). Examples are pulp fiction stories from such defunct titles as Weird Tales. We will be featuring 1-2 hours of readings, one old mysteries (Sherlock Holmes, his French counterpart Arsene Lupin and others), and the other hour perhaps horror & science fiction. Old Time Radio. This is a very gray area in the U.S., although it is generally thought that most Old Time Radio without embedded copyrighted musical performances are in the public domain. Simply put, the copyright laws weren't written to take dramatic radio into consideration. You'll find as many legal opinions as you can find lawyers. In Canada, there are definitely some gray areas as well, but from what I can gather, the copyright should reside with the script and its author. So it is necessary to find shows whose writer meets the life + 50 year rule. There are some difficulties here, as the older shows, which would be more likely to be in the public domain, usually didn't credit the writer. There are a number of somewhat later shows which do, and at the very least we will be playing Sherlock Holmes and other early detective old time radio. Basically, we're going to have either 2 hours of readings and 1 OTR, or 1 hour readings and 2 OTR.

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@artisan-radio So do you use some kind of AI reading software to speak the book and broadcast a file from Project Gutenberg? I'd like to do this.

Posted : 05/05/2025 6:08 pm

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