Orphan Works comment 0262

H-Looney-Chesley-20050311133003To: Jule L. Sigall Associate Register for Policy & International AffairsDate: 03/11/2005From: Chesley H. LooneyComment:I've had an experience with an orphaned work that may be of interest having to do with a musical work (Cinema 76) used in a Continental Insurance pavilion. The following digest of several email conversations gives the picture; : 12181 (C) S0/CompuServe Mail [MAIL] 19-Oct-03 09:51:50Sb: Compliments and QueryFm: Ches Looney 73016,1336To: boychoirs.orgMy compliments on your BoyChoir webpage. I'm the father of 4 boys and a girl and most of them have benefitted by membership in children and youth choirs during their formative years. My wife, Ruth, and I are enjoying adult choir participation in our "mature" years.Your web page is very interesting and inclusion of performance recordings makes it even richer. I have a puzzlement however, The Continental Soldier was the centerpiece for Continental Insurance's 1964-5 World's Fair exhibit some eight years before the TBC's first performance. Did Continental charter the initial Ray Charles work? Were your words "... commissioned by the Texas Boy's Choir ..." intended to show appropriate compensation to the author? Or did the TBC commission the work before '64? Seems puzzling that neither Continental nor TBC comments on the other party.Thanks for helping me understand.Ches-------------------------------------------------- : 12183 ...