Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 2010/07

From: Lora Crighton <lcrighton@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Nielsen Concerto Copyright
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:25:45 -0400

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Michael Nichols <mrn.clarinet@-----.com> w=
rote:
> Well....I have a clarinet-related copyright question for the list.
> Does anybody know what the story is with the Nielsen Concerto and
> copyright?
>
> Kalmus sells a dirt-cheap reprint of it, and you can download the
> score from IMSLP, where they claim it's in the public domain.
>
> But it was written in 1928, so you'd expect it to still be under
> copyright in the U.S., provided Nielsen or his publisher took care of
> all the requisite formalities.
>
> Is this a simple case of Nielsen failing to register or to renew in
> the U.S., or did something else happen? =A0Denmark and the U.S. have had
> a bilateral copyright treaty since 1893, so the situation is not like
> us and the Russians. =A0(and even if it was, there's Uruguay Rounds...)
>

It is public domain in Canada and Europe, but IMSLP shows it as public
domain in the US as well, which surprised me - even if it ended up in
the public domain because of improper notice or other problems with
the formalities, would the copyright not have been restored in 1995?
US copyright law quite complicated, and it can be difficult to
determine the status of some works.

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