[snicksfan85]

I really don't think when it comes down to it, that the we-still-own-your-music-because-it-was-remastered will actually work when artists start to excercise their termination right. I think if anything, those remasters will be seen as a derivative work and even that I don't think will hold up in court if it becomes a battle because a good lawyer could argue that there is not enough new and original contributions to the old recordings to warrant a copyright for just that. (A derivative work does not extend the copyright of the original work and has it's own copyright.) And just going analog to digital doesn't change anything in regards to copyright.

I think the Rumours re-release has a lot of things going against: market climate, restructuring going on at Warner Music, the fact they released a remaster five years ago.

And I think that's a lot of what is holding up Buckingham Nicks too. And then you have the Stevie and Lindsey factor. First, you have to get both Stevie and Lindsey to agree that the time is right to release it and what terms they are looking for out of releasing it. Second, you have to find a label willing to release it under something close to those terms.