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eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,
you might wonder what music is in the public domain. well keep wondering lol because its such a mess of state laws that you need to hire a lawyer, and even then, its really just an opinion. as a rule of thumb, if it was recorded onto a wax cylinder, you're probably good. if it was recorded onto a shellac disc, maybe its public domain, but be careful. anything vinyl, absolutely not

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eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Dixville posted:

Isn't it some period of time after the artist dies? That might be some other country though, I can't remember

for literary works and films and almost everything yes, and the timers started applying retroactively after the U.S. signed the Berne convention in 1988, (over a hundred years late). But it didn’t apply to pre-existing audio recordings and so it’s a big mess

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