Verification of PD-US status

[daphnis]

Kurt Atterberg's Ballade und Passacaglia, Op. 38 was published in 1937 by Eulenburg plate 5693. It was subsequently miniaturized and issued through their "Eulenburg Miniature Scores" division out of New York and given catalog number 883 and a new plate number 5804. When it was miniaturized, there was no copyright claim given anywhere on the printed score which differs from the original printing (see sample here) which did have a copyright notice. I have checked for copyright renewals from 1964-67 and see nothing of this work. I believe this is also ineligible for URAA restoration given that Eulenburg had offices in New York and this is written on the title page to the miniature score. Could someone else verify that the miniature score would be PD-US given this information, please?

[Sallen112]

So if the title page does contain any USA cities where it would be assumed to be simultaneously published with the USA, then most likely if there is no renewal (and/or registration), then most likely it is PD in the USA, considering it was first published within 30 days of the USA.

[daphnis]

The complication here is the initial publication occurred in '37 (with a valid registration) and the miniature score occurred later (my assumption), so I don't know how this factors into the decision. There was no renewal for the '37 publication that I can find.

[Sallen112]

So its probably PD then in the USA most likely if no renewal is found. I would mark it as "C" for the USA status then and put in the USA-C-notrenewed template in the Copyright Info field in the General info section.

I did a quick search in our internal Copyright Record Search and I did not see any registration, but only a few records of the composer itself came up of his other works.

[daphnis]

There's another related situation with Atterberg's Sinfonia per archi, Op. 53. It was published by Atterberg himself (registered with the US copyright office on 11 April 1958, reg. no. EU522601) and then, according to the score, "assigned 1960 to E. Eulenburg, London." A search of the online copyright records shows no renewal for this piece, but I'm not sure if it's URAA eligible either. Although the title page shows offices in Zurich and London, come 1960 Eulenburg did have its New York office and this would have been available in their US catalog.

[daphnis]

Suggestions on the last piece here? Is "C" also the appropriate choice for tagging?