Intellectual Property,
Entertainment & Sports,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 1, 2022
Copyright protection for public performances of pre-1972 music
A 9th Circuit decision has renewed focus on copyright protection for public performances of pre-1972 sound recordings.
Dariush Adli
President
ADLI Law Group
444 S Flower St
Los Angeles , CA 90071
Email: adli@adlilaw.com
Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI
A decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has renewed focus on copyright protection for public performances of pre-1972 sound recordings. The issue before the court was whether California copyright law protected rights to public performances of music created before 1972.
Prior to the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright protection was a patchwork of state and federal laws. The 1976 law substantially moved copyright to the federal doma...
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