Post by Liebezeit on Nov 1, 2021 12:48:08 GMT
As I observe that some people have been bringing up unreleased songs as nominees for continuing the Voyage (pun intended), I have been pondering about how ABBA might handle their anniversaries in tandem with their continuing marketing...
Surely they couldn't churn out Gold: Greatest Hits all over again until they fade into obscurity like Rudy Vallee - but some reissue campaigning have been happening rather a lot sooner even for the big and lesser names.
Get ready for some false equivalency (just because they can doesn't mean they should?) - The Beach Boys (with all out outtakes, mixes), Bob Dylan (with curated outtakes) and Motown Records (with simply just unreleased songs that didn't work out for their albums) have been rather lenient on their vaults and cleverly marketing it as a 50th anniversary or rarities.
The European Union did extend sound recordings to 70 years (not retroactive as all recordings from 2013 are covered whereas the ones before 2013 are still 50 years) but I'm not a lawyer so I'm not too much updated with this information.
I'm not saying ABBA / Polar Music should do this; owing to their perfectionist nature, this is entirely their choice, and they got the final say before Universal considers scheduling it.
Considering the abundance of material ABBA has according to Carl Magnus Palm and some demo songs have seeped their way into the internet / TV, it would be worth pointing out that should some of the leaked ABBA demos or alternate mixes go unnoticed and had their copyright zapped out, the grey market would be using this as an advantage to bring out gratuitous unofficial ABBA releases in which Polar Music has no control of.
To put it simply with this burning question to start a discussion: would ABBA or Polar Music (including the roster of Ted Gärdestad, Svenne et Lotta, Nashville Train, etc etc.) be inclined to catch up with the European Union copyright laws?
Until they do announce it for real (the hectic marketing does sort of work in the long run does it?), this remains a bit of a wishful thinking.
www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/arts/music/european-copyright-laws-lead-to-rare-music-releases.html
www.law360.com/articles/492241/a-look-at-europe-s-new-music-copyright-law
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_music
Surely they couldn't churn out Gold: Greatest Hits all over again until they fade into obscurity like Rudy Vallee - but some reissue campaigning have been happening rather a lot sooner even for the big and lesser names.
Get ready for some false equivalency (just because they can doesn't mean they should?) - The Beach Boys (with all out outtakes, mixes), Bob Dylan (with curated outtakes) and Motown Records (with simply just unreleased songs that didn't work out for their albums) have been rather lenient on their vaults and cleverly marketing it as a 50th anniversary or rarities.
The European Union did extend sound recordings to 70 years (not retroactive as all recordings from 2013 are covered whereas the ones before 2013 are still 50 years) but I'm not a lawyer so I'm not too much updated with this information.
I'm not saying ABBA / Polar Music should do this; owing to their perfectionist nature, this is entirely their choice, and they got the final say before Universal considers scheduling it.
Considering the abundance of material ABBA has according to Carl Magnus Palm and some demo songs have seeped their way into the internet / TV, it would be worth pointing out that should some of the leaked ABBA demos or alternate mixes go unnoticed and had their copyright zapped out, the grey market would be using this as an advantage to bring out gratuitous unofficial ABBA releases in which Polar Music has no control of.
To put it simply with this burning question to start a discussion: would ABBA or Polar Music (including the roster of Ted Gärdestad, Svenne et Lotta, Nashville Train, etc etc.) be inclined to catch up with the European Union copyright laws?
Until they do announce it for real (the hectic marketing does sort of work in the long run does it?), this remains a bit of a wishful thinking.
www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/arts/music/european-copyright-laws-lead-to-rare-music-releases.html
www.law360.com/articles/492241/a-look-at-europe-s-new-music-copyright-law
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_music