the sites will often tell you not to email them for permission, as they only re/distribute such content.
however, if you are using the music for commercial purposes, you'll probably want to doublecheck the source of the music. i forget what they call the authorities you can check with. gungasnake's suggestion applies, but you'll have to go back to stuff made by artists that died in the 20's or earlier. i know "long long way to tipperary" is in the public domain now. i'm sure wikipedia will have more information on what copyrights have expired.
Thank you !
Those are exactly the types I am looking for.
tinygiraffe wrote:wouldn't that be nice? disney managed to get the time extended for all copyrighted materials, robbing the public of 30 years of books, recordings, and other content.
we'll get that stuff in 2037, unless they extend it again, like they did the time before last.
You're telling me that Disney got copyrights extended from 50 to 80 years ona general basis?
gungasnake wrote:You're telling me that Disney got copyrights extended from 50 to 80 years ona general basis?
Yes to the general basis, but the numbers are slightly off. Because Disney is a corporation, the Copyright Term Extension Act actually extended its copyrights from 75 to 95 years.
Wikipedia's entry on the Copyright Term Extension Act gives a pretty decent overview.
Pretty amazing. Unless you're talking about the bible or something, it's pretty hard to picture an individual having any sort of interest in protecting a published work after 90 years. I mean, at that point, it's not on the hot lists any more and all you're talking about is some sort of scholarly interest.
gungasnake wrote:Pretty amazing. Unless you're talking about the bible or something, it's pretty hard to picture an individual having any sort of interest in protecting a published work after 90 years.
Disney's Mickey Mouse being an exception, of course. And Disney is such a strong lobbyist it can make Congress change copyright laws just for itself. (There were a couple of other lobbyists for the change, too, though.)
interesting you mention the bible, the king james version is under a perpetual copyright (wikipedia has an article on that too) in the united kingdom, where you cannot ever publish it without permission from the royal government.
outside the uk, you can do whatever with it.
