My internet search skills are barely noticeable, and I've never come
across anything that gives the whole story on the earlier versions of
U.S. copyright, but I believe that the revision of the law in 1909
EXTENDED the period of copyright to 28 plus 28 years, which means
that previously it would have been less, and my guess would be
something like 14 plus 14 years. Which might in turn suggest that
the original law in the 1790s might have been something like 7 plus 7
years. But the 1790s law didn't cover music anyway. That didn't
happen until 1831.
John
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