MonorailMan
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A couple years ago I stumbled upon the Extinct Attraction Club, and I'm really glad I did. However, I had a couple questions about using the music I've purchased from them and about the music in general. (I'm pretty good when it comes to image/photo copyrights, but I'm pretty clueless about the specifics of music copyrights. 
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A while ago Disney gave EAC a box that had the entire Spaceship Earth master soundtrack (the Jeremy Irons and Walter Cronkite versions) including all the music and narration on separate tracks, and was basically told, "Here ya go. It's yours now.", since these versions were now retired.
If I wanted to, say, use this music for a future winterguard show I was teaching, I would go straight to Disney for the information, right? EAC wouldn't have any copyright on it, would they? (I bought the MP3 versions several months ago, so I didn't get the CD case with the printed information.) If the guard were to go to the Finals next year I would have to pay for usage of the music because their performance would be recorded and sold on DVDs.
To make things more complicated, there are some "loop holes" in the system. For example, if a piece of music is over 50 years old it's considered "fair game" without having to pay copyright fees. Another loop hole would be if the original owner of the piece gives up the rights to it. (I don't believe Disney is making any money off of AEC's sales, so I'm not sure if this means they've given up the copyrights or not.) Does Disney give up their copyright on music once the attraction is "retired"? Considering all the hard work that goes into them, I'd find that hard to believe.
Their FAQs page has been down for awhile, and I haven't been able to find much information on things like this. I was going to e-mail EAC, but I thought I'd ask about it here first since there are a lot of Disney fans present.
)A while ago Disney gave EAC a box that had the entire Spaceship Earth master soundtrack (the Jeremy Irons and Walter Cronkite versions) including all the music and narration on separate tracks, and was basically told, "Here ya go. It's yours now.", since these versions were now retired.
If I wanted to, say, use this music for a future winterguard show I was teaching, I would go straight to Disney for the information, right? EAC wouldn't have any copyright on it, would they? (I bought the MP3 versions several months ago, so I didn't get the CD case with the printed information.) If the guard were to go to the Finals next year I would have to pay for usage of the music because their performance would be recorded and sold on DVDs.
To make things more complicated, there are some "loop holes" in the system. For example, if a piece of music is over 50 years old it's considered "fair game" without having to pay copyright fees. Another loop hole would be if the original owner of the piece gives up the rights to it. (I don't believe Disney is making any money off of AEC's sales, so I'm not sure if this means they've given up the copyrights or not.) Does Disney give up their copyright on music once the attraction is "retired"? Considering all the hard work that goes into them, I'd find that hard to believe.
Their FAQs page has been down for awhile, and I haven't been able to find much information on things like this. I was going to e-mail EAC, but I thought I'd ask about it here first since there are a lot of Disney fans present.
Say it ain't so.
