Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor

[jemiller226]

I'm speaking of this work, not the more well known Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Based on this post and others, I am led to believe that the manuscript should be PD-US but it is explicitly marked Non-PD US. This has to be an error, correct? There is no method by which a manuscript from 1822 could possibly still be under copyright in the United States.

[coulonnus]

The i tab in https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin ... N788005782 gives this https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin ... rview-info where is says Lizenz/Rechteinfo: = public domain.

[jemiller226]

That's what I thought. Someone might want to remove the Non-PD US tag from that scan, then.

[Sallen112]

Nope, none of what any of your posted here has anything to do with USA Copyright Law as I personally reviewed this when this was first uploaded on the site years ago (plus those links are for EU libraries where the composer's works are public domain there in that region, remember the claim is about USA copyright status NOT EU status!). The first edition is in 1952 with a valid copyright claim with registration and renewal on time 28 years in 1980 (also any setting that is first published of that work, means all editions of that extant are copyrighted as well for the work for the USA status. Just because the composition was created in the 19th century, DOES NOT MEAN the work itself is public domain the USA. There would have to be evidence the work was first published before 1931 for the work to be automatically in the public domain naturally in the USA or the work was published WITHOUT a valid registration and renewal published between 1931-63. Not every single work ever existed is in the public domain in the USA even from composers this old.

To be clear if the first edition of the violin and piano setting as the arrangement for the work was first published in 1952, in the USA all extant editions of even the original setting are also copyrighted in the USA.