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BMI’s Bradley Collins Confirmed for Indie Music Week
BMI’s Bradley Collins Confirmed for Indie Music Week
Nashville, Tennessee - Indie Music Week has announced that Bradley Collins, Associate Director of Writer/Publisher Relations, BMI Nashville, will be participating as an Indie Music Week...
Free Music Downloads Continue To Grow
Over 60 million music fans are still using peer-to-peer file (P2P) sharing programs like Kazaa and Morpheus to share their favorite tunes online. Even as lawsuits continue, free music downloads continue to grow. Most music fans show little...
Guitarists - Use Your Neck, Not Your Head!
Want to expand your versatility on the guitar? Don't use your head -- use your neck! We're going to use a "G" chord and a G major pentatonic to illustrate how we can use 5 basic chord shapes to move up and down the neck of the guitar. These 5...
SAINT ANNOUNCE DATES AT UK’s PREMIER FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL IN STONY STRATFORD TO LAUNCH NEW ALBUM "BONES & TELEPHONES"
Milton Keynes, Wednesday 1 June, 2005 - SAINT, the Brussels based Rock/Pop band are pleased to announce that they will be playing two gigs on the same day near Milton Keynes on Sunday June 12th 2005. Following on from the successful launch of their...
Why New Musicians (Rappers) Fail: Three Reasons and Solutions
Despite the title of this article, the purpose of it is actually to HELP new emcees AVOID some common traps on their journey to learning how to rap better. You can come up with a million reasons why new rappers fail…or why any artist fails for...
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How to Find Public Domain Content
One of the easiest places to find authoritative public domain content is ... your local used bookstore or library!
True -- virtually everything contained in the books you'll find at these locations were protected by copyright. But ... it's also true that many of these copyrights have expired -- making the contents of those volumes completely public domain.
US copyright law has gone through several iterations -- but the two things you need to remember are "75 years from copyright date" and "Sonny Bono"!
The copyright law originally stated that a copyright would last for 75 years. Thus, if a book were copyrighted in 1900, the copyright would expire in 1975. If a book were published in 1920, the copyright would expire in 1995. If a book were copyrighted in 1922, the copyright would expire in 1997. But ... if a book was copyrighted in 1923 or later, then things take on a whole new slant ... courtesy of then-Congressman Sonny Bono.
You see, a particular item was originally copyrighted in 1923. It's copyright was due to expire in 1998 -- sending this item into the public domain. This is normally not a problem -- truthfully, most people don't care about things copyrighted so far back. Expiring the copyright can actually grant these works new life in the public domain.
In this case, though, the item due to expire was a mouse -- Micky Mouse!
It’s interesting that Disney has no problem using stories that are already in the public domain – Sleeping Beauty, Treasure Island, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Three Musketeers, etc, etc – but they’re not too crazy about their flagship icon becoming available in the public domain.
Disney lobbied Congress heavily and Congressman Sonny Bono introduced legislation to extend copyright protection for an additional 20 years. This legislation passed in 1998 -- but only applied to items that were not yet in the public domain. Thus, an item copyrighted in 1992 was public domain after 75 years -- but anything copyrighted in or after 1923 was protected for 95 years.
So -- to play it perfectly safe and legal -- if the copyright date on a published work is 1922 or earlier, the item is now in the public domain and may be freely used (but not necessarily re-copyrighted and sold). If the copyright date is 1923 or later, it's best to leave it alone till at least the year 2018!
So what good is a book published and copyrighted prior to 1923? Well, if it's a book of sheet music -- or a book of classic poetry, literature, or theater -- or a book of formulae, travel, or ... well, you get the idea. Some things become dated -- but some things are just as current today as they were when they were originally published.
This doesn't mean you can find a book by Mark Twain in the bookstore and freely copy and distribute it. You'll likely find the copyright on that published work is fairly current. However, if you find an old version of the same book published and copyrighted prior to 1923, then you can safely use it!
The best places to spot these treasures -- try your local public library, used bookstores, or estate sales.
About the Author
Joey Robichaux maintains the Free Sheet Music site at http://www.freesheetmusic.net; he's using copyright law to make public domain sheet music available for download.
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