# Ripping CDs from Library

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-cds-from-library/637935>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 16, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-cds-from-library/637935 "2012-10-16T22:36:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-cds-from-library/637935/46 "2015-11-08T01:37:44Z")

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> [@usedtobe](#):
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> Ask your radio station to play any of the Shatner or Nimoy ‘songs’ - they’re hilarious, and the station probably still has the (gasp!) records.
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> They won’t play them over the air - the Broadcast Rights for those dried up decades ago.

Why would this be true when it’s not true for any other music of that era? Can you provide a cite?

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> US Copyright law is bizarre - the DMCA (the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act”) was specifically triggered when the 1927 ‘Steamboat Willie’ (first appearance of Mickey Mouse) was set to expire (70 years for Copyright).
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> The Law lost all credibility with that maneuver.

> [@Why do patents last 20 years, but copyright 95+?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-patents-last-20-years-but-copyright-95/611763/4):
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> The extension of copyright to match that of the European Union would have happened if the Walt Disney Company magically vanished off the face of the earth. The two systems had to be reconciled. And the EU wasn’t about to make it shorter. …
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> SCSimmons, I need to tell you that anybody who accuses Walt Disney for this gets treated thereafter like somebody dropping Creationism into a discussion of evolution. It’s a giant neon sign that you don’t understand the issues.

This, however, is true. People have said this dozens of times here and will continue to do so as long as necessary.

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