You guys need to check into the Louis Armstrong catalog if you really want to go nuts trying to figure out what's REALLY authorized.
Most everything on LaserLight (a now legit company but was once a subsuiduary part of a German bootleg operation) by Louis Armstrong is not authorized by his estate.... Are they bootlegs or public domain?
Are public domain recordings allowed at TTD?
And boots, sometimes you can find 'em at Big Lots and I just saw some at Circuit City a few weeks ago, looking as legit as possible.
(Bangles live in Pittsburg, Louis Armstrong outtakes- stolen from the estate, Byrds, Everly Brothers, Cannonball Adderly)
And before you think that a "supposedly" legit record company won't bootleg other artists......
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/tec...cal-fraud.html
The recordings of a British concert pianist who found fame in the last years of her life have been exposed as hoaxes - by Apple's iTunes music player.
Joyce Hatto died in June 2006, having become a cause célčbre with fans of classical piano in the last years of her life. A series of recordings showed her masterful command of a wide range of composers including Liszt, Schubert, Rachmaninov, Dukas and more.
Last week, a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he put a Hatto recording of Lizt's 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer. The iTunes player identified the disc as being recorded by another pianist, Lászlo Simon. He dug out the Simon album and found it sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.
iTunes had stumbled on a hoax. To identify albums it calculates a 'discid' from the duration of the tracks and then connects to the Compact Disc Database online. The Gramophone critic tried another disc - Hatto playing Rachmaninov - and again iTunes identified it as belonging to someone else. Again, the named recording - by Yefim Bronfman - sounded no different.
Gramophone decided to go to expert audio company Pristine Audio. Their detailed webpage on the Hatto case shows what they found, and lets you listen to the evidence. Examinations of the waveforms of Hatto recordings confirmed what iTunes had suggested. Many are direct copies of other pianist's work - some are tweaked versions where a recording has simply been slowed down.
Prisine Audio will be keeping their pages updated as they investigate more. As yet, all the Hatto recordings they've looked at have been copies. Hatto's husband, who produced and released them, says he cannot explain the similarities.
I wonder if there are any other cases out there like this waiting to be discovered? Players like iTunes and music fingerprinting projects like these make it more likely than ever before.
Update 23/02/2007
There was more in Time recently.....looks like the husband's the culprit.
Ands as for interviews, if you get it directly from the unedited and unaired master recording, is that ok for TTD? (I was the taper.)
I have a Mick Fleetwood interview where once the interview stops the drugs come out....but the recorder wasn't shut off.....11/10/74 in Houston.
Is that fair game for TTD?
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