At 10:57 PM -0800 1/12/10, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:52 PM, John Howell wrote:
You can ask the publisher, but you KNOW what they'll say!!!
The publisher is Kalmus with no copyright notice, so you know what THAT means!
Are we still on the "Peter & the Wolf" thread? (Sorry; I've lost
track.) If so, then in the normal course of events that would
indicate PD. In fact under the 1909 law, publication without
copyright notice automatically put any work in the PD. But I suspect
that whatever law or treaty it was that restored those copyrights
took that into consideration, and of course once a piece is printed,
that copy will never reflect later changes in copyright status.
Which is why it's often difficult to figure out whether an original
copyright has been renewed.
No date either, but based on the vendor name stamped inside I know I
bought it no later than 1984. Probably late 1970s.
Yes, and I think that would be before the restoration of copyrights
to Soviet works. I haven't had time to check what the current law
might have to say about it. Anyone?
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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