BobDylan66 wrote:
The problem is in another article from Rolling Stone about the Tulsa Archives here:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news ... n-20160303The main curator said this about JWH:
"It's such a mysterious record," he says. "I heard a couple of alternate takes of 'All Along The Watchtower' that were, to me as a fan, just incredible."
A click on the first take of "As I Went Out One Morning" reveals a drastically slowed-down, dirge-like rendition of the song.
Why then describe those sessions saying they are amazing and not secure them? For the previous copyright releases, many weren't even known to exist (Time They Are Changin sessions for 1963, Eric Von Schmidt Tape and Royal Festival Hall for 1964, the live 1965 shows). And for those sessions, they knew the law was passed everywhere so it wasn't a copyright dump like the first one "just in case".
And Tulsa doesn't count as a public release regarding the eu directive (first it's not in the EU and second the public doesn't have access to it yet).
So will they really take the risk? We'll see but for me it will be plain stupid to just play against the odds.
The "The Times They Are A-Changin'" material, the Eric Von Schmidt Tape and the Royal Festival Hall tape from 1964 all were in the hands of collectors (though not circulating freely), so there was the possibility of the recordings falling into the hands of the public domain labels and therefore the Dylan organization/Columbia/Sony decided to protect the copyrights of the recordings in the EU via "Anniversary Collections". Most of the 1965 shows taped by Pennebaker's team also were not circulating, but they had been sitting in Pennebaker's archive for quite some time and nobody knew if copies had perhaps been made, so the Dylan organization/Columbia/Sony secured the copyrights just in case.
I think the Tulsa archive staff have been specifically referencing the JWH sessions in their contacts with the press, because they know that the material will remain exclusive to them (e.g. there will be no "Anniversary Collection" release and no mainstream "Bootleg Series" release of the material) and they can exploit its potential in a presentation at the museum in Tulsa (once it has been opened).