Radio_copyright_problem_cartoon_-_Radio_News_May_1925.png
Summary
Description Radio copyright problem cartoon - Radio News May 1925.png |
English:
Editorial cartoon in 1925 radio magazine about the issue of the rights to on-air performances. When
radio broacasting
first began in 1920, live or recorded music was performed on air without regard to its
copyright
status. As broadcasting became a big business, the sheet music publishers
(center)
, who owned the rights to most music, began suing stations for
copyright infringement
, keeping many popular tunes of the
Jazz Age
from being performed on the air. Listeners were understandably incensed. The cartoon shows a rich publisher
(center)
barring access by two performers to the radio station microphone
(left)
. After court decisions settled that a radio performance came under the copyright of the original work, royalty payments by the radio networks were worked out.
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Date | |
Source | Retrieved July 25, 2014 from Hiram L. Jome, "Radio and the Copyright Problem" in Radio News magazine, Experimenter Publishing Co. Inc., New York, May 1925, p. 2046 on http://www.americanradiohistory.com |
Author | "PHIL", a cartoonist. |
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This 1925 issue of Radio News magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1953. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here . Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1952, 1953 and 1954 show no renewal entries for Radio News . Therefore the copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain. |
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