[hippie_queen]

Can't wait to finally sample Thomas Edison on the phonograph for my Soundcloud tracks, and not having to worry about the police knocking at my door!

[odiroot]

Knowing Edison, he can get up from the grave any day, to sue you into bankruptcy.

[filoeleven]

Alternatively, with a reinforced casket mounted on a turbine, his grave-spinning could be a viable and fitting alternative to fossil fuels.

[lapetitejort]

Grave spinning? Sounds like that dangerous Alternating Current malarky. Don't you know that AC can kill an elephant??

[toast0]

Prior art, I believe that's where Disneyland gets its zero carbon energy to power the park.

[LocalH]

He probably had a patent on doing that, so be careful

[kristopolous]

Hey be careful what you wish for!

Check out "I am the Edison phonograph" from 1906 https://youtu.be/EQC9CjFezrQ

I'd use that, totally would.

[btilly]

Sadly, that's still under copyright.

The problem was that various music copyrights were being dated from the 1970s for historical reasons despite the music itself being much older. Congress passed a law fixing a whole lot of that in one lump. Which is why music from the 1920s becomes public domain at the same time as movies from the early 1930s.

[kristopolous]

I guess it's Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton then.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtErmipXE

Alright, that's fine for now. The distance between this and modern pop music is actually razor thin. Update the instrumentation with synthesizers, give it percussions and you'd be done.

Interesting, the covers are further away from modern pop than this is

[Clubber]

Or getting sued for twice your current net worth.