From 1900 to 1950, more than 90% of the phonographic records in Argentina were made in the Victor and Odeón studios of the City of Buenos Aires.
It is estimated that between these years more than 30,000 recordings have been made, mostly by Tango artist musicians.
Since the 50s, local record companies such as Víctor and Odeón were absorbed by parent companies abroad that acquired the Production Rights of Argentine tangos. Under the new foreign directives, the original matrices (which allow new copies of those discs) that made up all this vast archive were lost and destroyed, and therefore more than 90% of those 30,000 tango recordings were lost forever. What is preserved today is due to private collectors who treasured the original records that companies no longer own (because they lost and destroyed the original material they owned).
Record companies such as SME (Sony), UMG (Universal), EMI, WMG (Warner), ORCHARD, Colonize Media, Dismex, Mundo Latino, Leader Music and Caribe Sound among others, claiming rights over tango videos (staying with the profits that these can generate in advertising), eliminating them, prohibiting and blocking the conservation and diffusion of the Argentine Cultural Heritage, they do so as heirs of the Production Rights that originally belonged to the companies Victor and Odeón and that have been transmitted with each New sale and merger of companies.
The problem is that these Rights have already expired in all tangos with more than 70 years old (from 1950 backwards).
Argentine Law 11,723, updated by Law 24,870 of 1997 derived from Argentina's accession to the Copyright Convention of Rome of 1961, stipulates a duration of production rights of 70 years from the date of its publication, term no Expandable through subsequent editions or compilations (unless it is re-masterized, which is impossible because the masters no longer exist).
Therefore all these recordings are Public Domain in terms of Production Rights which are the rights acquired by the recording companies when making a record. The record companies, ARE NOT OR CANNOT be the owners of the Copyright and / or Composition that a nonprofit institution manages in Argentina, SADAIC. The TAMPOCO companies are the owners of the Interpretation Rights that AADI CAPIF administers in Argentina. The only thing managed by record companies are Production Rights, which are the first to be extinguished after 70 years of publishing the work.
Therefore, the same companies that first destroyed the archive fund of more than 30,000 tango recordings, blocked the production of tango to establish another type of culture (Anglo-Saxon Pop and Rock at the time, the Caribbean as reggaetton today) , the heirs of these companies that undermined and plundered the Argentine cultural heritage, now self-proclaiming owners of already extinct rights, not only enrich themselves with our tango, but block it, eliminate it and censor causing even more damage, getting in the way that allow its transmission and conservation for future generations. All this in addition, breaking the Law before the passive gaze of all the entities involved in the preservation of our cultural heritage as the Judicial, Legislative and Executive powers of the Nation would have to be in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture of the Argentine Republic.
Hoping someone can lend a hand about it. I remain available to expand and provide the necessary data. Thank you very much and greetings.
Carlos Giana (DNI: 25739779) - Administrator of Cantando Tangos *
* Cantando Tangos Tangos, is a RU-vid channel created in 2009 for the dissemination and preservation of Tango's heritage, with an archive of more than 5000 tango videos, plus 130,000 subscribers from more than 200 countries, +90 Million views to date and an average of 1,500,000 monthly reproductions. The only reference on the Internet for hundreds of tango performers and artists of which there is little or no dissemination and that have not been published for more than 50 years.
Cantando Tangos is a personal venture that does not receive money for advertising or have any type of support or subsidy.
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