Portfolio.com runs a story about the country and Southern rock icon Charlie Daniels who is currently fighting to recapture the rights in his musical compositions. The article explores the complexity of the US copyright system in this respect.

Daniels wrote “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” a song he allegedly wrote in 1979 telling a fiddle battle between a boy named Johnny, who bets his soul for a golden fiddle in a battle with the Devil, in a nutshell Faust revisited.


The law changed in 1978 (1976 Copyright Act) and can be unclear. Before 1st January 1978, writers and composers assigned their copyright to their publishers for 28 years and had the [...]

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