Curt Hayashi <chayashi@BBNCCH.ARPA> (11/01/84)
I've been annoyed for years that record companies almost uniformly fail to
include on album covers or disc labels the date they were released (or the date
they were recorded, but that's another issue).
By analogy to the publishing world, this would seem to be important information
- it is to me, anyway.
Can anyone explain this omission that seems to be industry-wide?
Curt Hayashi
(chayashi@bbn-unix)
P.S. There's another industry where this omission is even more critical-
roadmaps.rsg@cbscc.UUCP (Bob Garmise) (11/05/84)
>I've been annoyed for years that record companies almost uniformly fail to >include on album covers or disc labels the date they were released (or the date >they were recorded, but that's another issue). Did you ever read the fine print on the back of the album at the bottom? It's usually right there in black and white or red and green or whatever. I think the date refers to the release date, although records with 1984 dates will still be showing up as brand new releases in April and May of 1985. ...bob garmise...at&t bell labs, columbus...
mr@isrnix.UUCP (michael regoli) (11/06/84)
[:] >I've been annoyed for years that record companies almost uniformly fail to >include on album covers or disc labels the date they were released (or the >date they were recorded, but that's another issue). >>Did you ever read the fine print on the back of the album at the >>bottom? It's usually right there in black and white or red and green >>or whatever. I think the date refers to the release date, although >>records with 1984 dates will still be showing up as brand new >>releases in April and May of 1985. Those are copyright dates, guys. In other words, the date in which (or, usually, the year in which) the recorded material became the property of the copyrightee. -- .:. /.\ michael regoli '|-|` ...ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!isrnix!mr
Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@BRL-VLD.ARPA> (11/09/84)
Shapiro's index of popular songs has so many cases of songs copyrighted one year and having their best-selling record the next year that such a case is not entered with a cross-reference. For example, if a song was copyrighted 1964 and its best-selling record was in 1965, you would look under 1964 and find, for that song, "best-selling record in 1965 by _____".
ron@logico.UUCP (Ron Moore) (11/10/84)
Sometime between 1968 and 1972 the copyright laws for lp records
was changed. Publishers were subsequently required to put the release
date on the record to copyright it. Very few albums released
before 1968 had the release date on them. The only possible
class of exceptions would be albums based on concert tapes when
the date of the concert would be included.
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Ron Moore (818) 887-4950
Logicon, Operating Systems Division
6300 Variel Ave. Suite H
Woodland Hills, Ca. 91367
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