Musical compositions were cut off at 1924, and that was to prevent
Rhapsody In
Blue from falling into PD.
dl
Steven Smolian wrote:
A myth. See the new CLIR study I cited earlier today.
Steve Smolian
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> David Seubert wrote:
>> I wonder why 1924? If it is all Mozart the underlying works are
>> clearly
>> in the public domain no matter what the age of the recording. Nothing
>> changed in 1924 with respect to copyright on sound recordings (or more
>> properly, the lack thereof).
>>
>> David Seubert
>> UCSB
>
> The predominant opinion is that American copyright protects all sound
> recordings fixed before 1924 - though I'm not sure of those from 1923.
>
> Mike
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