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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
My apologies, Harry, for being a bit grumpy. The 50 year performance copyright limit is most interesting. I would assume that the performance is still not fully into public domain due to the song writer's copyright still being life + 70 (please correct me if I'm wrong). This implies that for public domain music (i.e. most classical music), once you are past the 50 year performance limit, it would then be fully in public domain (in Britain). Has anybody started a musical equivalent of Project Gutenberg there?
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There are record labels such as "Naxos" who specialise in producing low-cost CDs of old classical recordings from the 1930s and 40s which are indeed now in the public domain due to the 50 year performance copyright term.