If the YouTube posts are deemed legitimate releases in the EU, AbkcoвЂ™s copyright will term will last until the end of 2089. Abkco apparently has made similar moves in past years that went unnoticed, at least publicly, except by some fan groups.ДЄbkcoвЂ™s motivation for posting the songs would seem clear: The company needed to вЂњlawfully publishвЂќ or вЂњlawfully communicate to the publicвЂќ - i.e release them in some way - within 50 years after the performances were made, or it would lose the copyrights Bob Dylan, the Beatles and others have issued similar low-profile collections in recent years.

They remained there - albeit with an ugly dial-tone-like sound obscuring the rarest recordings - for approximately 24 hours before being shifted from public to a private, invite-only setting. 31, 2019 - the very end of the 50-year term recognized by the EU. The tracks, most of which date from 1969, were posted onto YouTube, apparently by Abkco, on the afternoon of Dec. While reps for both the Stones and Abkco Music & Records, which administers the groupвЂ™s 1960s catalog, either declined or did not respond to VarietyвЂ™s requests for comment, several sources and experts have commented on both the legalities of the situation and the recording details of the songs themselves. In the days since the brief New YearвЂ™s Eve вЂњ copyright dumpвЂќ of at least 75 rare Rolling Stones songs onto YouTube just hours before their European copyright was to expire, insiders and (especially) fans have speculated at length about the origins of the tracks and the legal ramifications of the move.

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