[OT - maybe] Need opinions, please ..... are these freeware?

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..... I have been visiting a lot of binary usenet addresses to download huge
collections of 1950's pop songs (my hey-day). Can these be considered
freeware? It's not like using Kazaa, etc to download modern-day pop songs
that are being sold in music stores. I've got a collection of over waaaaay
over
1,000 pops from the decade of 1950-59, and just wanted to know if I'm
morally covered. <G>
 
Praetorian said:
.... I have been visiting a lot of binary usenet addresses to download huge
collections of 1950's pop songs (my hey-day). Can these be considered
freeware?
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Highly unlikely
It's not like using Kazaa, etc to download modern-day pop songs
that are being sold in music stores. I've got a collection of over waaaaay
over
1,000 pops from the decade of 1950-59, and just wanted to know if I'm
morally covered. <G>
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You're not. Your downloads are almost certain to be copyrighted.
 
Praetorian said:
.... I have been visiting a lot of binary usenet addresses to download huge
collections of 1950's pop songs (my hey-day). Can these be considered
freeware? It's not like using Kazaa, etc to download modern-day pop songs
that are being sold in music stores. I've got a collection of over waaaaay
over
1,000 pops from the decade of 1950-59, and just wanted to know if I'm
morally covered. <G>
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They're copyrighted audio file's so no, they're not freeware.

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
jo said:
Highly unlikely

You're not. Your downloads are almost certain to be copyrighted.
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Thanks for the prompt response. Just curious why there are no such binary
outlets for any pop songs from 1969 on to the present?! I thought perhaps
that anything 50 or more years old, was open season. I realize that some
copyrights have only a limited lifetime. Of course, specific recorded
collections of such tunes .. such as "The Best of 1950's, blah blah" might
be copyrighted as a collection. But, where did THEY get the right to
collect them? Even the Library of Congress has such old collections, and
permits individuals to bring their recorders to get a single copy, or you
can let
them do it for you for a fee.
 
Praetorian said:
Thanks for the prompt response. Just curious why there are no such binary
outlets for any pop songs from 1969 on to the present?!
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Your newsserver not carry binaries? :-)
 
Praetorian said:
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Thanks for the prompt response. Just curious why there are no such binary
outlets for any pop songs from 1969 on to the present?!
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There are :)

In fact, some albums become available on those groups before they hit
the shops .....

AFAIK, *everything* is in the binary groups ....

P.
 
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