Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-07-01 04:23
I've read some of what's available from a Google search and see what seem to be either conflicting or sometimes just vague statements about recordings and copyright protection. Most of what I found by people who seemed to be authoritative were about recordings of recent material - pop songs, show tunes, even pieces by the likes of Glass or Prokofiev. I didn't see much about recordings of 18th and 19th century music.
I'm specifically interested in how long recordings of "classical" pieces that are PD in their print form are protected from public use without permission. I may want to embed audio files of classical recordings in a couple of websites I run, so I want to know what I can legally use.
As a practical matter, I'm not sure that any recording company would go to the trouble of trying to prove I have used an excerpt from one of *their* recordings, but still....
The most definitive answer I found was in an 8-year-old Yahoo discussion in which one poster said that in the U.S. all recordings are protected for 50 years from their release, which would put any recording of music by Brahms, Beethoven, etc., and recorded before 1968 in the public domain.
Does anyone have reliable knowledge about this?
Karl
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