Origins: Copyright

Subject: Origins: Copyright
From: GUEST,Grace Sinclair
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:45 AM

Can any one help me find who owns the copyright to the following
The waters of kylescue, The Dancing in Kyle, For these are my mountains and Danny Boy

Subject: RE: Origins: Copyright
From: GUEST,pavane
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 10:09 AM

Danny Boy - tune (London)Derry Air - trad, words written and published 1911 (by an Englishman!), so out of copyright in UK & US.

Subject: RE: Origins: Copyright
From: michaelr
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:03 PM

Grace -- search this site. If you don't find the songs there, they're likely in the public domain.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Origins: Copyright
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:16 PM

More to the point, Fredrick Edward Weatherly, who wrote the words of Danny Boy (who appears never to have even set foot in Ireland) died in 1929.

Subject: RE: Origins: Copyright
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:50 PM

Date of death does not coincide with death of copyright in the US. Although English, I am sure Weatherby had US copyrights as well.
This makes no nevermind, however, since the date is far enough back that even with the additional allowed in the revisions of copyright statutes for 1998-2000, I would guess that his © entitlements are all dead.

Michaelr, I put Danny Boy into that site, and got 16 listings. Dates, renewals, details, etc. are not given.