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To: DustyMoment
Public domain songs are those whose copyright of 7 years has expired and may be freely used by anyone.

Song copywrites depend on when it was published. Music pubished before 1978 has a 95 year copyright. Music published after 1978 has a copyright of the life of the oldest surviving author plus 70 years. Anything published before 1923 in in the public domain.

109 posted on 09/05/2008 6:08:55 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Song copywrites depend on when it was published.

The copyright for a published song is different than the copyright for recorded music. The last time I dug around ASCAP and BM(C; I? don't recall), it was about 7 years. And the copyright for songs published before 1978 was not 95 years. I wrote and copyrighted music prior to '78, and I think it was 10 years, then the copyright office changed it to 7 years.

132 posted on 09/05/2008 9:46:38 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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