[78-L] George M. Cohan

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Jul 25 06:10:33 PDT 2012


Wiki is wiki, of course, and I tried to find a date for when that one might 
have been posted but couldn't find any. I'd also never heard of the varying 50 
& 70 in Canada for published vs unpublished stuff, but someone seems to be 
lumping books, art and sound recordings into the same categories.

dl

On 7/25/2012 7:22 AM, Alan Bunting wrote:
> Not sure how accurate this Wikipedia piece is - for example it says sound recordings copyright in the UK is 70 years. In fact it is 50 and remains so until all EU countries ratify and implement the 2009 Directive which extends it to 70 years - something that is unlikely to happen until next year.
>
> Alan Bunting
>
>
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
>>
>> Still 50 in Canada, believe it or not. Actually a lot of countries still have
>> 50, like Afghanistan..which is longer than the average person's lifespan there.
>> This also lists the copyright duration for sound recordings (see right column).
>> Say, where are the Marshall Islands anyway?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 7/24/2012 4:49 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>>
>>> That is for the U.S. only. Foreign rights are currently Life of the last surviving author + 70 years.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: ryansrecords1 at hotmail.com
>>>> To: 78-l at 78online.com
>>>> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:42:35 -0400
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] George M. Cohan
>>>>
>>>> I'm not an attorney, but I thought all printed works (including music) published prior to January 1, 1923 was Public Domain. Please concur if I'm right, or educate me if I'm wrong. (And of course, unfortunately, sound recordings do not fall under this law.) -Ryan
>>>>
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