flo & eddie

Court Decision Finds No California Performance Right in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings – Why It Was Still an Issue

By David Oxenford|2021-09-01T09:40:48-05:00September 1st, 2021|Legal News|

The saga of Flo & Eddie seeking performance royalties for the pre-1972 sound recordings of their old band, the Turtles, seems to be finally reaching its end. For years, they have sued both broadcasters and digital media companies trying to exploit an ambiguity in copyright law over the status of pre-1972 sound recordings – songs... Continue Reading…

Court of Appeals Finds That Digital Remasters of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Likely Do Not Result in New Copyrighted Work That Would Bring These Songs under Federal Law – Reversing District Court Decision

By David Oxenford|2018-08-21T11:18:07-05:00August 21st, 2018|Legal News|

Two years ago, a District Court Judge, in a case brought against a broadcaster alleging that the broadcaster owed money under California state law for playing pre-1972 sound recordings, dismissed the suit finding that the broadcaster was playing digitized versions of those songs, created after 1972, which were covered under Federal copyright law (we wrote...… Continue Reading