rogifan said:

There was a 2006 Bentley listed on one document I saw.

It is in this document as well

InwardJim said:

laurarichardson said:

Nowhere because they do not own anything. I also find it hard to believe Prince would have a lot of stuff that was not copyrighted. One of his assitance said part of her job was making sure things were copyright as soon as they were recorded. If Prince wrote songs for people he appears to have copyrigthed the material.

Writing for and writing with are two very different things. Just like how the publishing and the recording of a song are two very different things. It's possible to own the song but not a specific recording.

Your basis is supposition that that assistant worked to copyright absolutely everything that was recorded during their tenure AND went through the vault to make sure everything was already accounted for. While I am not saying they didn't do their job, combing the vault for anything missed may have been above and beyond that just wasn't accomplished.

We know he wasn't that careful with who was given in house recordings and demos (hence our wealth of boots). He may have been more meticulous or hired people to be in later years, but there is a precedent for him not copyrighting works as soon as they were recorded in the past.

If everything was copyrighted, there would not be able to be new songs come out of nowhere that people have never heard of. The copyright is public record, so we would already know what there was as far as the catalogue goes. To keep things mystery, to keep things hidden, expecially when he started to be careful about what he gave to WB, copyrighting would have shown his hand and given them license to take it all (or at least pursue it).

If they wrote with him they would have a portion of the copyright. If the wrote with him and did not get any portion then they have no say. Either they do or they don’t. I am sure if things get released that other artist who have ownership of will speak up.

“Your basis is supposition that that assistant worked to copyright absolutely everything that was recorded during their tenure AND went through the vault to make sure everything was already accounted for. While I am not saying they didn't do their job, combing the vault for anything missed may have been above and beyond that just wasn't accomplished.”

Why would each assistant he had not have sent the material for copyright during their tenure. In addition, on the Dr. Funk podcast interview with one of Prince’s engineers was hired to bring Paisley Park up to date and he talked about the vault material and so have other engineers. Some said Prince knew exactly were things were located in the Vault and would go back and get stuff all the time to use on projects he was working on. Why would he put stuff in the Vault as a storehouse and not have copyrighted the material? He had more than one publishing company so how do we know that we have seen all the songs. I suspect that this is a list of a portion of his copyright material.

We have a wealth of boots because people stole stuff or he gave stuff away and yes it is possible those songs were not copyrighted but this list we are seeing was done at the end of November and if you look it does list a vault of material that has not had a valuation done yet along with other material items that have not had a value on. I suspect the admin are still cataloguing vault material and anything they find that was not copyrighted will be taken care of before the probate closes.

injuredpinky said:

The inventory of songs looks like what's listed in the ASCAP database:

https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceWeb/#ace/writer/52210040/PRINCE

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This would not include unreleased items. Also, any "new" song titles you see are just songs from other artists that sampled Prince.

But the Estate list does include unreleased songs, just not all of them.

SquirrelMeat said:

injuredpinky said:

The inventory of songs looks like what's listed in the ASCAP database:

https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceWeb/#ace/writer/52210040/PRINCE

.

This would not include unreleased items. Also, any "new" song titles you see are just songs from other artists that sampled Prince.

But the Estate list does include unreleased songs, just not all of them.

Not very many. I remember back in the late '90s spending time looking at the Library of Congress copyright records that were available online--there were a few unpublished Prince songs that popped up, but not many. Just the ones that he'd for some reason decided to officially submit--I'm guessing because he might have been considering sending them out to other folks or something--but most of the ones I knew about back then were not showing up in the copyright office records. But the works by others that sampled or otherwise incorporated Prince songs were showing up (and until I figured that out I was far more interested in some of those titles. Then, when I realized they weren't new Prince tunes, I was disappointed). I think what we have here is really mainly just those works that were copyrighted--they haven't done a full cataloguing of the vault at all--or if they have, it has nothing to do with this list.

Sorry for the dumb question, but, what does it mean to "BAKE" a tape? What does this actually entitle and I assume it is to preserve the contents?

Thank You In Advance,

DC

EddieC said:

DirtyCache said:

Sorry for the dumb question, but, what does it mean to "BAKE" a tape? What does this actually entitle and I assume it is to preserve the contents?

Thank You In Advance,

DC

There's this new thing called google, you'll love it, it's waaaay faster than asking and waiting for an answer. That said:

http://audio-restoration.com/baking.php

Your welcome,

TF

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