Im sure I have seen stuff like this on here before.

Joe bloggs has an unissued acetate of a song on a long defunked acetate cutters disc. If publishing was never applied for and this is the only copy of the recording, who owns the rights to the music?.

Both tracks are cover versions of known songs.

Both tracks are cover versions of known songs.

In that case, they'll be published then. If you PM me the titles I'll do a search under the songs on the MCPS database and see what it throws up if you like, i.e. other versions of the song that the publishers or MCPS registered. It may throw up the artist.

Whoever financed the master owns the actual recording rights, so it may be worth trying to track it down. If it's a publishing house and only a demo, then they'd probably let you put it out for free these days.....

Ian D

Cheers ian, I will pm it when I get in.

i'm confused by "if publishing was never applied for" and then the songs being covers of well known songs. Publishing only applies to the songs, not the recording. The well known songs were most likely published.

what are you trying to do with the recording or find out?

Put it on you tube Bob. When I joined I wondered if I get an advert (if) who would own the copyright? It’s a well-known Jimmy Webb song.

Put it on you tube Bob. When I joined I wondered if I get an advert (if) who would own the copyright? It’s a well-known Jimmy Webb song.

Youtube won't do anything, it won't recognize the song. It uses audio fingerprinting to recognize the specific recording. Another version of a famous song won't get any special youtube treatment or get taken down because the recording won't be recognized (e.g. it's not looking for the underlying song). It's no different than if you sang the song yourself into your laptop and posted it.

Thank's for that Bob, not even sure how or when I will do it now, want a bit of a video to go with it.