Are you sure it's 50 years? About 3 years ago I rang the MCPS (of which I am a member) to confirm the duration of copyright in relation to a transcription of a piece of music I wanted to publish, and they told me very specifically that it was 70 years from the death of the composer. Has this been changed? Hoot, where did you get that info (not meant aggressively, only in curiousity)? Can anyone offer any confirmation or otherwise of 70 years? Because that's very clearly what MCPS told me -