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>>227819 Apparently, US had a crazy-ass rider to the copyright extension that reinstated previously public-domain sources. It carried a condition that anything already PD in country of origin could not be renewed. However, someone managed to argue protection for UK-sourced recordings that had long passed into PD here, but because they were created before the 1970s US federal law didn't count, and so the federal "country of origin rule" didn't apply (but somehow the also-federal extended copyright did - so they get to eat their cake and yet have it still).
tl;dr: Fuck you, Sonny Bono. Fuck you.
PS>>227803- find legit copies on sale for the US market by a US retailer in the US (i.e. not imports) and you've got your rule breach. tl;dr TITS OR GTFO
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