DJ Wee Man

Here’s my knowledge of copyright law.

THat 50 year protection you speak of is correct, it is the bare minimum afforded to works by the Berne Convention and is intended to allow the descendants of the copyright holder to benefit from the work. However, at the end of that period, it becomes freely available in the public domain.

Just because something is made available publicly does NOT give another person the right to distribute it. It still belongs to the copyright holder.

I’m not sure where they’ve got this filing for copyright nonsense from. Copyright is a special form of IP that arises literally upon creation – it’s also governed to a bare minimum standard intenationally (Berne and TRIPS).

Honestly copyright is fairly uniform internationally and there’s no such thing as not filing for copyright – it arises automatically as stated. It is the copyright holder’s right to decide whether other people can use it – if there has been implicit allowance then i am unsure of what the situation is here.

For your first point you are correct, he has bought that vinyl and that allows him to have personal use. It does not allow him to copy and redistribute it. Just imagine it if the case was a book. You bought Harry Potter for example. You own that copy, but you have no right to repackage it and distribute it yourself do you?

Hope this helps. (FYI I’ve studied international and UK copyright law at degree level)

Age certainly does not matter. Admittedly you haven’t been in the game for a long time, but I’d say most of the top DJs in the game currently are certainly over 30 so you have nothing to worry about. The main thing is you enjoying what you do 🙂

I’ve also had this issue in the past, any help would be greatly appreciated! I’m not sure if it’s the software itself or the tracks, because I’ve had some tracks read fine and others – usually disco – be a bit all over the place.

amazing!