Re: Happy New Year + Elvis Question (Ian Pointer)

>From: Ian Pointer <[email protected]>
>Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:33:40 -0500
>Subject: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Happy New Year + Elvis Question
>
>The media made a big fuss about Elvis's That's All Right Mama entering 
>the public domain today, and the music industry said that they were 
>going to do all they could to extend the copyright protection terms.
>
>Everything went quiet after the initial news pieces, so the question 
>is: did the music companies get their way? Or is That's All Right Mama 
>now in the public domain?

Seems like it is, according to this blogger (and we know what legal experts
they usually are ;)

http://enterthepublicdomain.blogspot.com/2005/01/happy-new-year.html

Seriously, does anyone know any decent download sites for the (presumably
increasing amounts of) recordings passing into the public domain?
archive.org seems like the obvious place but the interface is so baffling
I'm reduced to Googling for "site: archive.org + [whatever I'm searching
for]", or going through not-very-updated-looking "wrapper" sites like
http://www.publicdomain4u.com/