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Originally Posted by HarryT
Is file sharing non-existant in Canada, where all that material (and more) is now in the public domain? (I'm not sure about movies? What is the copyright term for movies?)
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About movies, They are a collabortive work, which gets a separate length in the US nowadays (either 95 or 120 years, I forget which).
The old US copyright was based on copyright date. So 56 years after copyright date (28 year x 2) it became public domain. The lifespan of the author/creator didn't figure into it. Canada is currently Life + 50, which is usually longer.
I don't know about legal file-sharing for PD music in Canada. Much of the works would still be under copyright there. All the musicians and composers would have to be dead before 1959 for the music to be PD. I'm suprised that there isn't a classical music download service in Great Britain, for those performances that are past the 60 year performance copyright in Britain. The same performances Naxos sells cheap. They are PD...
Excuse me, PD in Britain. My Bad.