Re: A Yiddish World Remembered

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Fred Blumenthal" <xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: A Yiddish World Remembered


>
> I would be very interested in what the intellectual property lawyer has to
> say about the age at which a recording becomes public domain.
>
> Fred Blumenthal
> xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com
>
A reliable source of information on U.S. copyright law is at the Library of
Congress site.  The specific answer to your question is at
http://www.copyright.gov/faq.html#q46.  For pre-1978 copyrights, it is 95
years from the date of the original copyright.  Presently, copyright starts
when the work is created in a tangible form, but that may not have been the
rule in years past.

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