Hurray for the Public Domain!

[humprof]

No more sound recordings entering PD in the US until 2024, unfortunately, unless Disney and its bedfellows succeed in getting commercial copyright extended for the umpteenth-plus-one time before then--in which case...who knows? Fifty years from now, maybe our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be legally free to do whatever they want to do with some of the earliest quad recordings.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

 

[ar surround]

Humprof, Disney would copyright anything that passes through our ears and seen by our eyes, including the wind and sunshine, if they could.

 

[humprof]

Happy Public Domain Day!
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/Sound recordings from 1923 are now free from copyright in the United States. "Yes, We Have No Bananas," anyone?