Hi, this thread seems have started twice. Here's what I wrote on the other about an hour ago:

The kernel of the international agreement on copyright is this: the copyright is 'on' as long as the author lives PLUS seventy (70) years after that. Then the 'object' of cr becomes 'free'. So, a lot of music that we consider as 'traditional' is not at all free of copyright, and - put the opposite way - a lot of 'free' music is not at all traditional. Even though the copyright is a positive thing from the author's point of view, the period of protection has become too long, thinks I!

AKS from Joensuu, Finland