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Midchuck	Help! Performing copyright WWI songs (6)	RE: Help! Performing copyright WWI songs	17 Mar 13
You're probably talking about British copyright law, which is outside my field of competence. If I have one. But in US, copyright was for 28 years, with one renewal for another 28 years. That was the law until 1978, when Disney corp. realized Mickey Mouse was about to go into public domain, so paid the members of Congress whatever was necessary to pass a new statute, extending all copyrights then in force. But they couldn't re-impose copyright on stuff that was already in public domain. 78 - 56 = 22. Therefore, in general, anything copyrighted in the US before 1922 is public domain. Since WW I ended in '18 or '19 (I'm not sure, even I wasn't there), anything published during that war would be in public domain in the US, now. I think. Peter

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