Since the vast majority of your uploads are free, I'm giving you copyright tagging access for your own uploads. As I mentioned to several of the other expert up-loaders with similar access, leave any to me you have doubts or questions about. I actually like getting into the more complicated ones. Thanks to the Motezuma ruling, all those manuscripts copied out by people other than the composer are 99% certain to be free nearly everywhere, and even most holographs have been copied in one way or another and distributed (microfilms, etc in addition to manuscript copies) over the decades. Items first published between 1978 and 2002 might be protected in the USA - depending upon which lawyer you talk with. The more common interpretation is that this first publication provision - which protects whatever pieces fall under its rubric until 1/1/2049 - only applies to unpublished works of composers less than 70 years. The US definition of "publication" is pretty similar to that used by the court in Motezuma, so the only thing protected about an edition of a long-dead composer published in 1980 is the edition, not the work itself. This also applies to items first printed between 1923 and 1977. The printed first edition might be covered for 95 years from 1925 (provided all the formalities were observed), but the manuscript is unlikely to be. This is all voluntary of course and if you've got other stuff to do just leave the copyright tags to me.
| Posted at 00:10, 9 July 2015 by Carolus (administrator) |
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