The Jerome Kern song All the Things You Are is quite eligible for IMSLP in its original 1939 setting taken from the vocal score of the musical. Kern died in 1945 and Oscar Hammerstein II (who you didn't bother to mention when you added the page) died in 1960. Problem is, the item you uploaded is an arrangement - not the original. It's a simplification by Albert Sirmay, whose dates are 1880-1967. This item is therefore under copyright even in Canada until 2018. You absolutely have to pay attention to all persons involved in a thing like this. It's one of the things that makes for such a problem for composers like the long-dead Kern and Gershwin. The copyright term is based upon the death of the last surviving contributor. Thus, we unfortunately must delete the song. You'll note there's also remarkably little Gershwin on the site which is sort of odd since he died in 1937, which means things solely by him are free even in the EU. That's the catch though - there are relatively few things that are entirely Gershwin's own creation. F. Campbell-Watson - orchestrator of many of the classics like American in Paris, etc. lived until 1980. Gershwin's brother Ira lived until 1983. Ferde Grofe lived until 1972. So all contributors to anything added here have to have died before 1966, with the sole exception of the editors of 'urtext' editions, which fall under a 25-year from publication rule.
| Posted at 18:49, 26 July 2015 by Carolus (administrator) |
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