Klarinet Archive - Posting 000554.txt from 2001/01

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Australasian, and (S) American Folk/Public Domain music
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:07:14 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subject: Re: [kl] Australasian, and (S) American Folk/Public Domain music

> > The WORDS are not an issue if you use only the music
> > on a recording. Further, unless a NEW copyright was
> > taken out when the last verse was added, the words are
> > also out of copyright. It should be really easy to
> > find out by querying Library Of Congress.
>
> I thought I made that distinction clear. The LOC many (most?) times does
not have the information on whether or not a copyright was renewed (as was
required to maintain the older copyrights).
>
> > --- Mark Charette <charette@-----.org> wrote:
> ...

Mark is right. The Library of Congress is not the correct place to go for
copyright queries. The official source of copyright information is the
copyright office. I don't know their official name but it is a *separate*
entity from the LOC.

Dee Hays

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