Reply #17: In the time of Brahms copyright lasted 14 or 21 years only.

[slampoet]

If applied to the current day the following would ALL be public domain.

All the Beatles, 99% of Motown, Chess, Stax, Atlantic records, 98% of jazz, 80% of Country music, 100% of Doo-wop, All Kraftwerk or DEVO currently released, All of The Who, All REM, Every Eagles song, All of Carol King, All Frank Zappa music, pretty much every Funk, Soul, Metal, Punk or Swing song you ever heard..

Everything the Grateful Dead ever did.



By the way, when people ask me what good contemporary American Music isn't being taught to kids in the schools......I can Almost use the same list.