sentences:  Sound recordings are a special case because before 2018, pre-1972 sound recordings in the United States were not covered by federal law but by state law.The court concluded that since federal law did not apply, and because nothing in the Berne Convention (which is inapplicable to sound recordings anyway) or the Rome Convention usurped the State of New York's law, the works were under copyright pursuant to New York common lawwhile the Uruguay Round Agreements Act and US statutes did not, and had never, offered protection to these works; the fact that they were not under copyright in the UK as of 1996 was completely irrelevant.In "Golan v. Holder", the Supreme Court wrote