As technology and the capability of removing artifacts from recordings improve this area of the law will be likely to be revisited in the future.

This last revision to copyright law raised more questions than it answered. For instance, was it acceptable to colorize black and white movies? Did this alter them from the original work, or was this an acceptable? Was it OK to alter pieces of work to make them more family oriented, or politically correct? Many of these issues are still a topic of debate in legal circles. As case law progresses, it is likely that many of these issues will be codified in future versions of the law.

Technology was a driving force in changes to copyright law over the years. When the concept of copyright, was first introduced, the printing press was a new idea. The idea of recording sounds or voices was not introduced...
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