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| From: | Joseph Rushton Wakeling |
| Subject: | Re: Hushing up Sibelius news? |
| Date: | Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:39:29 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130227 Thunderbird/17.0.3 |
On 03/02/2013 07:45 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
AFAIK (but I'm not a lawyer either) you can't renew the copyright of the music but only on editions. That's why one sometimes has to pay royalties for really old music.
This is UnitedStatesian copyright law, which has historically had some amusing deviations from European norms ... :-) At least as it was laid out in the early 20th century, copyright was for a fixed 28-year term and could be renewed for another 28 years.
One of the major historical differences between US and most European copyright regimes was that in the US, copyright had to be registered.
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