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Thread #158430 Message #3747585
Posted By: Jack Campin
30-Oct-15 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: Performing songs- ascap hassling - help
Subject: RE: Performing songs- ascap hassling - help
Claire, you are probably getting the magic 1923 from a US source. It's irrelevant outside the US, and I think you're in the UK?
I can't think of a comparable folk example, but a near-worst case in classical music is Richard Strauss's Don Juan, written in 1888. Strauss died in 1949 so it won't be PD until 2019, by the now-universal rule that copyright in a published work persists until 70 years after the writer's death.