[78-L] European Sound Recording Copyright Extension

[Kristjan Saag]

David Lennick wrote:
>
> As far as I know, King Oliver compositions from 1924 on are still copyrighted.
> No "death + x years" there, unlike Europe and Canada. Irving Berlin and George
> Gershwin songs prior to 1924 are out of copyright in the US, period, but still
> protected here because Berlin lived a long time, as did Ira Gershwin..and for
> that matter, Irving Caesar (so Swanee still has years to go in Canada and Europe)
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Wikipedia has published "prior to 1923" for out of copyright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length
The US "death + 70 years" applies to works published since 1978 or 
unpublished works, according to that chart.
Kristjan