Index on Censorship: Isn’t 50 years of copyright enough?
Twenty-seven years after his death, Elvis Presley is still climbing the charts. The track that is credited with giving birth to rock and roll, That’s All Right, reached number three last month, fifty years after it was first recorded in Memphis ‘ Sun Studios.
For most record buyers the track was just a nostalgic trip. But to record industry officials it is a “call to arms”?. For on 1 January 2005, this seminal recording will drop out of copyright and into the public domain.
