Popcast: New Owners for Vintage Hits? January 2013 is perhaps a month like any other to you. But in the music business, it's the calm before the storm. An old copyright law stipulated that musicians who released work beginning in 1978 could invoke a "termination rights" clause and regain full ownership over it 35 years later - in other words, starting now. On this week's Popcast, Ben Ratliff, the host, talks to The Times's music-business reporter Ben Sisario on how this and other rights-reversion issues might affect big labels that depend on back-catalog revenue, the shifting power relationships between artists and their corporate minders and what major labels can still do for musicians. Listen above, download the MP3 here, or subscribe in iTunes. Larry Rohter on termination rights Allan Kozinn on Bob Dylan and European copyright