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I assume that on the stroke of midnight of the new year, numerous scores on IMSLP currently inaccessible as TBs will suddenly (automatically?) become unblocked as their composers-editors-arrangers-librettists fall into the public domain in the EU. Will there be a cumulative list somewhere on the website of the newly unblocked scores, so it will not be necessary to hunt them down individually>

MS

No offence, but why would one need this? It's not like they have some intrinsic value, unless you're looking at every score on IMSLP...

@Perlnerd: I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with the question, since it is not always obvious what else might fall into the public domain besides certain of the works of authors actually deceased in 1959. Some of the works may enter the PD because of the dates of their arranger or lyricist, afterall.

@Starrmark: Actually, the TBs are all subject to 95 year copyrights and the earliest is due to expire in the late 2010s, I believe. The items that will become unblocked when it rolls over to 1 January 2010 (Canadian time) will be items currently marked with copyrights due to expire at the end of 2009 in Canada; some Villa-Lobos, some Martin?, even some Debussy, Ravel and Saint-Saëns (transcriptions by Lucien Garban!), and the like. Unfortunately with Villa-Lobos and Martin?, the majority of their scores still have 95 year copyrights that expire long after entering the public domain in Canada.

I can make a list of file names from the copyright review table, most of which will include a PMLP number which you can use to reference the original works page (use the search box on the left-hand column to search on the PMLP numbers).

Regards, PML

PS The IMSLP number for these scores is found just to the left of the [Edit] tag. For example, #40115 - #40118 are all on the one page, which is for a set of 3 symphonic poems by Ernest Bloch.

# 00:04, 08/02 #36217 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80842-Martinu_-_Fables_(piano).pdf
# 00:08, 08/02 #36218 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80844-Martinu_-_Film_en_Miniature_(piano).pdf
# 00:20, 08/02 #36220 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80848-Martinu_-_Les_rondes_(score).pdf
# 00:25, 08/02 #36221 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80848-Martinu_-_Les_rondes_(parts).pdf
# 00:37, 08/02 #36222 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80851-Martinu_-_Puppets_(piano).pdf
# 00:41, 08/02 #36223 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80853-Martinu_-_Spring_in_the_Garden_(piano).pdf
# 23:53, 08/02 #36246 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80905-Villa-Lobos_-_African_Folk_Dances_(piano).pdf
# 23:57, 08/02 #36247 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80907-Villa-Lobos_-_Baby's_Family_Vol.1_(piano).pdf
# 00:01, 08/03 #36248 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80909-Villa-Lobos_-_Children's_Carnival_(piano).pdf
# 00:13, 08/03 #36255 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80920-Villa-Lobos_-_Fairy_Tales_(piano).pdf
# 00:15, 08/03 #36256 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80922-Villa-Lobos_-_Floral_Suite_(piano).pdf
# 00:51, 08/03 #36263 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80934-Villa-Lobos_-_Second_Suite_for_Children_(piano).pdf
# 01:03, 08/03 #36266 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80939-Villa-Lobos_-_Simple_Compilation_(piano).pdf
# 02:15, 08/03 #36268 [Edit] [History] -- (10/C/30) [Daphnis] PMLP80941-Villa-Lobos_-_Trio_for_oboe,_clarinet_and_bassoon.pdf
# 03:57, 08/10 #36706 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP18795-Debussy_-_Khamma_(trans._Garban_-_piano_4_hands).pdf
# 04:23, 08/10 #36713 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP24150-Debussy_-_Martyre_de_Saint_Sebastien_Fragments_(trans._Garban_-_2_pianos).pdf
# 04:26, 08/10 #36714 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP34399-Debussy_-_Sonata_for_Flute,_Viola_and_Harp_(trans._Garban_-_piano_4_hands).pdf
# 01:11, 08/11 #36789 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP04844-Ravel_-_String_Quartet_(trans._Garban_-_Piano).pdf
# 01:12, 08/11 #36790 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP04940-Ravel_-_Trio_for_violin,_cello,_and_piano_(trans._Garban_-_Piano_4_hands).pdf
# 00:44, 08/12 #36847 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP82032-Martinu_-_Nonet_(score).pdf
# 05:58, 08/23 #37826 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Carolus] PMLP06099-Saint-Saens_-_Carnaval_des_Animaux_(Volière_trans._Garban_-_flute_and_piano).pdf
# 03:18, 09/08 #38939 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP82032-Martinu_-_Nonet_(parts).pdf
# 12:51, 09/29 #40115 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] SIBLEY1802.8008.5e19-39087023609912pp1-30.pdf
# 12:51, 09/29 #40116 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] SIBLEY1802.8008.a519-39087023609912pp31-60.pdf
# 12:51, 09/29 #40117 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] SIBLEY1802.8008.6ccc-39087023609912pp61-87.pdf
# 12:50, 09/29 #40118 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP87946-39087023609912_complete.pdf
# 01:09, 10/10 #40966 [Edit] [History] -- (10/V/30) [Daphnis] PMLP87679-Villa-Lobos_-_Chôros_No._5_(piano).pdf

I thought that the score for Villa-Lobos Choros #10 would be unlocked on Jan 1, 2010. Is it due for
release soon, or in purgatory for a bunch of years?

Chôros No.10 wasn't in the list I gave earlier, so it's in [TB] purgatory until 2024 (or earlier, if we can remove the technical impediment that results in us blocking materials that are copyrighted in the US).

Regards, PML