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Carolus removed my Sibley import of a Rachmaninoff song https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... temId=9106
with lyrics by Geraldine Farrar because she died in 1963. See article #18 of:
http://imslp.org/wiki/User_talk:Coulonnus. Geraldine Farrar died in 1967 but she lived in US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Farrar therefore she is PD in US.

Did I misunderstand the Rule of the shorter term? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... orter_term. May Canada put this author under copyright for works before 1923?

Canada's attempt at rule of the shorter term - which is profoundly flawed - exempts any works of NAFTA countries (USA and Mexico). US works are therefore life-plus-50 of the last surviving contributor (Geraldine Farrar in this case) in Canada. Canada's rule of the shorter term applies only to works with more than one contributor, according to a court decision.

Thanks. I'll be more careful next time.