[Dixielandjazz] Re: Copyright

[Dan Augustine]

Folks--
     I have no brain (unless and until i have coffee, and it's 
doubtful even after that).
     Never mind, i found a message that gives a good summary (below).
Dan
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From: "Chris Calabrese" <lists at jazzpiano.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Public Domain (was BMI licensing)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:21:40 -0800

Anything published before 1923 is automatically in the public domain.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

~ Chris
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>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:50:41 -0500
>From: Dan Augustine <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Copyright
>
>DJMLers--
>     What's the current cutoff-year for copyright?  Does anyone 
>understand the latest government rules on this?  I asked my friend 
>Jim Bryan about this (he owns and runs one of the best 
>sheet-music/songbook stores in the country, Alpha Music in Austin), 
>and he said he wasn't sure what the law was now.  And the non-USA 
>laws are (of course) different from the European and other-country 
>laws, aren't they?
>     Any (even vague) ideas?  1908?  1929?  Didn't it used to be 28 
>years from the date of publication, then one renewal for another 28 
>years?  And wasn't that superceded by life of the composer plus 50 
>years?  Or not?  Now that i've retired i'm dusting off the brass 
>arrangements i made in the 1970's of Scott Joplin, Janacek, 
>Hindemith, etc., and am thinking about trying to get them published. 
>Thanks.
>
>     Dan

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