Preserving The Rock And Roll Music Of The Sixties

What Is This Place?

This is my personal project to preserve the rock and roll music of the sixties. I will eventually have links to every song aired on radio stations in the USA. All 7,000 of them!

Most of the songs will be shown via video courtesy of youtube. If I don't have it, it ain't out there.

What's that big yellow thing?

Well since you're asking, you're probably under the age of 30. It is called a jukebox. It was generally found in restaraunts, diners, pool halls, bowling alleys and other places. Radio stations aired the songs, then if you wanted to hear a song elsewhere at your convenience, drop a coin in and pick a tune.

There was no internet then. Tape recording was just beginning to be the thing to have. MP3? Not invented yet. A computer was that big damn huge thing you only saw once in awhile on tv. You needed a few fork lift trucks to move it.

Ever seen the cable tv show NickatNight? Well, nick is short for nickelodian, which was one name used for the original juke box. As it only cost a nickel to play a tune.

Copyright

Copyright is granted to the person who originated the material. Copyright rights can be passed on to the author's heirs or assignees such as corporations. But there is a limit as to how long that copyright protection is valid. In the sixties that was limit was 28 years with a renewal valid for 28 years. So if a certain work was created in 1960, the copyright expired in 1988 unless it was renewed. If it was not renewed, then the work has fallen into the "public domain". The basic meaning of which is, anyone can use the material for any purpose.

With the advent of the internet, there has been a strong interest of authors to protect their work even more so. Someone writes something, posts it to a website and soon that work appears on dozens of other sites. With each one claiming copyright to that material. Well it's my website so therefore I own the copyright. Sorry, but no you do not. The copyright you have belongs only to your original work. As I see it, you can't even claim copyright to the coding because html is public domain. So what can you claim? That which you originated.

This site is dealing with music of the sixties and specifically "Rock and Roll". All of the videos presented on this site are hosted on youtube.com. All I am doing is making rock and roll hunting easier. By listing the songs in alphabetical order. So you don't have to spend hours finding a single song.

I've always had a chuckle at the hundreds of websites that you can find that have those cute little icon graphics we call smiley's. Every damn one of them claim they have the copyright. You know the Walmart commercial where they show the smiley face and play the tune to go with it? Both actually came from the movie "Bye Bye Birdie". A spoof on the departure of Elvis going to the Army. Oh and the smiley face is actually copyrighted by the way.

People misunderstand what copyright is all about. I once found a site that was selling photographs that were actually owned by NASA. I pointed out to them that they did not own copyright. The person responding said basically, "Well we do. We did the cropping!". Uh no. That's called a derivative.Just because you cropped an image does not give you the legal right to claim copyright.

As you know, or should know, the United States FBI recently seized the servers of megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement. In my personal opinion, this blatantly violates the 4th amendment to the Constitution. Their claim is that the customers are making available to the public copyrighted material. Claiming, most likely, there was a monetary gain on this shared file system.

We shall see what happens when the case finally comes to the courts. Which will most likely wind up in the Supreme Court of the United States.

Because of that attack, other file sharing systems have begun turning off the public file sharing part.

Want to know the real story behind the scenes?
It all stems from a video! One single video produced for and on behalf of who?
megaupload!
That video featured several artists who were either licensed by or under contract with UMG (Universal Music Group). UMG challenged megaupload in court, and LOST.
But did that stop UMG from doing anything else? Nope.
In my opinion, I say these dirty dogs took some of their money and went to have a chat with the US Dept of Justice. That's just an educated guess of course. Eric Holder then unleashed the FBI and within months, the FBI had enough evidence to take megaupload down.
In my opinion, the FBI illegally seized the servers, all 1,100 of them, in an effort to obtain even more evidence. Which, according to law, is illegal.

In my opinion, Kim Dotcom got screwed not only by the US government, but the Australian government as well. His home country of Australia seized practically every thing he owned. I do trust that this case will become before the US Supreme Court, as well as the Australian Supreme Court, where both governments will get their high and mighty horses kicked down royally. The USA was founded precisely to keep this kind of thing happening to it's citizens.