VOICE OF AMERICAN CORPORATIONS – a Ukrainian from New York, Kvitoslava-Orysia ČISIK (Kasey Cisyk), also known as Casey Cisyk, was born on April 4, 1953. LET’S CELEBRATE HER BIRTHDAY.
And, let’s remember the beautiful singer, listen to her songs, respect her copyrights that are still valid and protected, including by her heirs.
📍 COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS OF KASEY CISYK: 📍
Her song “You Light Up My Life”:
The link to which I provide here, received an Oscar and Grammy award https://youtu.be/5tZvb7C2X7Q?si=UwKdgoLxzSHBfOBi
‼️ The producer, composer and director of the film “You Light Up My Life” — Joseph Brooks — invited Kvitka CISYK to record vocals for the main song.
• She recorded the track in the studio. It was used in the original film. However, in the CREDITS of the film, Kvitka was NOT MENTIONED as a performer; for the commercial release, the song was recorded with another performer and Kvitka did not receive the Oscar. Kvitka and her family wanted to get to the truth, but…
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Kvitka Tsisyk – THE VOICE OF AMERICAN CORPORATIONS of the nineties – was the highest-paid performer of advertising jingles; Ford himself admired her voice, and she was the only voice of Ford Motors for 16 years (Have you driven a Ford lately? 1981-1998). She also sang for Chevrolet, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, ABC, NBC, CBS, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Toyota, Burger King, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Pepsi-Cola and others.
With her own money, she released 2 albums of Ukrainian songs:
“Kvitka: Songs of Ukraine” (1980) and “Kvitka Two Colors” (1989). She invited the best musicians of New York to record these albums and invested about $ 200,000 of her own money.
Here, the copyright should belong to her heirs. As evidenced by the website https://kvitkacisyk.com/legal/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
‼️ The singer’s official website states that some companies in Ukraine released her albums without proper permission, which is a violation of copyright.
‼️Thus, do respect our beautiful heroine, who glorified Ukraine and was poisoned by enemies. Do Sign licenses and Buy rights from the heirs! ‼️
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In Ukraine and the USA, the rights of performers have different times of validity and scope of rights.
The time of validity of copyright for a sound recording in the United States:
• For recordings created after January 1, 1978:
• 70 years after the death of the author (if individual authorship),
• or 95 years from publication / 120 years from creation (whichever comes first), if it is a work for hire.
IN UKRAINE, RELATED RIGHTS Art. 44:
• The property rights of performers are protected for 50 years from the date of the first record of the performance.
• The personal non-property rights of performers, provided for in Part One of Article 38 of this Law, are protected indefinitely.
