In a closely related area, has anybody ever attempted to make a list
of those post-1922 American compositions (as distinct from
phonorecordings) whose copyright was never renewed after their
initial 28-year protection term?
Any list that I have ever seen confines itself to pre-1923 works,
with ominous warnings about how later material requires the expertise
of a copyright lawyer to determine its status. In practice, I would
have thought that simple arithmetic would suffice, given that any
post-1922 work whose initial 28-year term ended before January 1st,
1978 without being renewed for a second period would have passed
irrevocably into the Public Domain.
I'm not aware of any systematic attempt to identify and catalog such
works. Ideas, anyone?
Anthony Baldwin
On 17 Mar 2009, at 3:06, Randal Baier wrote:
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> Wow! If ARSC isn't arcane, then I don't know what qualifies -- and
> that's precisely why I like being on this list!
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> A pomegranate tapenade in a world full of onion dip. Bring it on!
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> Randal Baier
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>> Dear ARSC folk-
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>> I am curious if anyone out there has compiled an exhaustive, semi-
>> exhaustive (or just plain exhausting) list of PD recordings. As a
>> Latin music collector I have found certain tracks that have popped
>> up with differing names on "budget" labels like Varsity. I seem to
>> recall a thread from sometime ago that dealt with this question
>> but I do not remember anyone having a single database of all the
>> music that fell into this category.
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>> Does such a thing exist or am I searching for Chimeras?
>>
>> Please ping me off list so as not to bother the mainstream with
>> what I believe might be fairly described as arcana...
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>> AA
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