•I recently found a Mills Violano roll with the songs copyrighted 1931. I thought production ended in 1930. When did production of Violano rolls cease? Al Menashe

Jody, Here's a little more about copyrights that you may wish to consider adding to your very much appreciated daily digest. The only reason I'm offering this is this fellow's offer. Might be of interest. Regards, Terry¶ smythe@mbnet.mb.ca ************************************************************...

> There is an agency whose sole purpose is to compile all > the songs copyrighted in the U.S. To learn more, contact: > The Harry Fox Agency I deal with the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) a lot when requesting mechanical licenses for producing rolls on the Bam-Bam label. From my experience, HFA represents a...

Well, I checked in the Copyright Office files 1898-1970 for a tune fitting the words "When You Wore Wh------", and turned up not one match. A real let-down. I liked relief-editor Rhodes' suggestion "When You Wore What I Wore," but I didn't even turn up that title. Why???? [ It may be a humorous paro...

Greetings: Thanks to George Bogatko for an intriguing suggestion for slithering past copyright: > So if Doug Rhodes wants to really tweak noses, don't play the tune, just > the variations, and spell out the title backward. Make sure at least > one of the variations is close enough to cue the audienc...

•I found another somewhat unusual roll: Gulbransen Instruction Roll #3 Fourth Edition - Martin Method copyright 1923. How many rolls were in this set? If anybody has an interest in this roll, email me. Bruce Mercer

•Generally speaking, in most international music copyright law of which I am aware, if an arranger makes a new arrangement of a piece of music on which the original copyright has elapsed, the resulting arrangement becomes the sole property of the arranger. You don't even have to have changed a note ...

•Does anyone have contact information for a company called 'Alien Aircraft' who copyrighted plans for a band organ in 2003? Tom Noble St. Louis, Missouri [ The writer/proprietor is Randy Charles, of Wilmington, Ohio. [ His most recent email address I find is from December, 2009: [ [ Randy Charles [ ...

HI ALL: I couldn't officially post "Frosty the Snowman" to the web page (still under copyright) however I can put "Jingle Bells" there -- and so it is. When you enter the page, you'll see right off the bat a part that says: "There some examples of the Christmas Nickelodeon roll that I'm working on c...

Re: Foxy Harry Fox Office: I am no expert on the compulsory licensing provisions of the Copyright act of 1976, but I think the Harry Fox Agency may be violating its licensing provision. My recollection is that the royalty is set by law and that it isn't up to the publisher to set it. If that were th...

Hi Folks, After speaking to my attorney and a copyright professional, I found out that unless someone else has evidence proving they starting using the word "E-nvoice" prior to 12/96, I now have the exclusive rights to the word. I don't say this to brag. I was indeed surprised to discover how such t...

•As I recall from years ago the law has considered that more than seven consecutive notes of identical music is a copyright violation. I believe that was given in a ruling in the forties but I can't recall the exact circumstances but I do recall distinctly that the ruling was that up to seven notes ...

•I was a little disappointed to hear that Karl Ellison shut down his site due to the possibility of a copyright infringement. I was hoping that someone would have a similar site someday with examples of various mechanical musical instruments, such as a Violano and others, so people could hear what e...

•I have the same Bruno Hoffman CD that Harvey Chao has. It has a copyright date of 1987, and I presume the original analog recording was made several years earlier. That puts Mr. Hoffmann's recording of the Mozart piece many years before Mr. James' "first authentic recording" of the same piece. Sinc...

•"Ivanovici Rules The Waves" Hmmm. Maybe Al Jolson was aware of copyright law but in 1946 composer Josef Ivanovici had been dead for only 41 years. 'Jolie' was a little off-hand in these matters. He sang "Avalon" in defiance of Puccini's "E lucevan le stelle" from "Tosca," and he was not ashamed to ...

•Luuk Goldhoorn wrote: > Recently I came across a catalogue from 1967, copyright by Lewis > Graham, entitled "The Museum of Music presents a pictorial outline > of the history of mechanical music." It was a bit before our day, and our late father, Hughes Ryder, may well have known much more of the s...

•In response to Bob Conant's post in 030610 MMDigest about playing modern tunes in public and the copyright problems there-in: Getting the music punched and sold (legally) is quite doable, although somewhat expensive. What you need is to get what's called a compulsory mechanical license for the tune...

•Adding to Doug Hershberger's posting on the tune "Wurlitzer Waltz," U.S. Copyright Office records show the following information. The title is "The Wurlitzer Waltz (I Close My Eyes)" and there are four composers credited: Box, Cox, Gibson & Roberts. Copyright date: June 23, 1936. This waltz was als...

•> [ On 1963/08/09 Union Carbide Corp. was granted copyright on the > [ trademark "Perflex", a "Plastic Film and Sheeting for Use as > [ Wrapping and Packaging Material." Perflex is a trade name encompassing many products still available. Uses today, apart from food services industries, include the ...

•I contacted Kurt Haas to see whether the Piano Roll Database Software was still available and whether it was still under copyright. He replied, "I will try to get the program back up on eBay by Monday. It is still under copyright. I am selling this for Jon Miller, who was in a car accident a while ...