More on manuals plus rescue

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

On 21 August 2015 at 14:08, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> This leads to some interesting situations.  Archibald Joyce wrote his
> "Autumn Dreams" waltz in 1908 and it has been reported to be the tune the
> orchestra was playing as the Titanic sank in 1912 (contrary to popular
> belief, it is extremely unlikely that the band played "Nearer My God to
> Thee" as they would not have been familiar with the hymn).
>
They might have been familiar with a different arrangement of the hymn
tune; though no one really knows what was played during the sinking of
the Titanic.


> As Joyce lived to a ripe old age and died in 1963, the work is still very
> much under copyright protection in the UK.  However, the same work was
> published in 1921 in the USA, so it is public domain there.
>
You want fun with music copyrights? Please go look at the IMSLP
project. Here's their page on how copyrights work with regards to the
sheet music/scores they are archiving:
<http://imslp.org/wiki/Public_domain>


> As mentioned before, works of Soviet writers and composers were considered
> to be PD (unless copyright was obtained outside of the USSR) by the US
> during the Cold War--similarly, the USSR did not recognize foreign
> copyright.  So you could purchase the sheet music of Shostakovitch for a
> pittance.  After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US moved to "restore"
> Soviet copyright and so removed works back into copyright status.  If you
> want to publish Shostakovitch, you now must deal with his estate--and
> copyright will endure to about 2050.
>
> --Chuck
>
2026 is when IMSLP will allow you to start uploading works by
Shostakovitch to their archive. (Canadian servers only! The US and EU
need to wait.)


Regards,
Christian
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Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
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