[78-L] European Sound Recording Copyright Extension

[David Lennick]

On 9/15/2011 3:07 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> 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)
> --
> 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 unpublished works, according to that chart.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

I'm certain that it was 1924..I believe that was done just in time to keep 
Rhapsody in Blue from falling into PD, and my (ex) lawyer was part of the team 
working with the Gershwin estate. But If anyone has more precise information 
(and Wiki is never the final arbiter) let's have it.

dl