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It was a very momentary glitch when I was making a change. I corrected it immediately.

Well we got some unfortunate bad news (its not all bad but going forward, were no longer going to be using the Canadian Server as the main location), the Canadian Parliament just passed there 2023 budget and included is the extension to Life + 70, but fortunately this only affects future composer's...

I understand that changes in Canadian copyright legislation are due and, if implemented, Canada will likewise be subject to the increasingly prevalent 70-year term that already applies in the majority of countries. That is true of Canadian copyright law. But the US copyright on 1927 publications wi...

You've just answered your own question — if what you've said is accurate, then yes, this early work is PD-US.

To be clear, Sallen112, a new edition today would likely not actually qualify for US copyright if it ended up in court: see http://www.rbs2.com/cmusic2.pdf. However, because the copyright office in the US will register whatever you send them for a copyright, we wouldn't accept a new edition as we do...

I'm an IMSLP copyright reviewer. In this case, it's very simple. US copyright law applies to works, not to specific copies of works. A handwritten manuscript and a published edition which contain the same material are copies of the same work, according to US copyright law. This work was published in...

I would like to edit https://imslp.org/wiki/Requiem_in_D_min ... g_Amadeus), but the page is locked down at the moment, so I'm unable to add a new score of the Amen fugue fragment and some PD-EU sound recordings. Thanks for the help!

Hey guys, Just wanted to announce that I have recently gotten my hands on two volumes of Italian songs edited by Pietro Floridia. Floridia notes that he has redone all accompaniment for piano. The first of the two volumes was published in 1923, and would seem to be copyrighted in the U.S., due to a ...