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US copyright terms: 1978+: Author's life + 70 years. 95 years if work-for-hire 1967-1977: 95 years 1924 - 1963: 28 years if never renewed. Maximum 95 years.
by gizmo686 6y ago
US copyright terms:
1978+: Author's life + 70 years. 95 years if work-for-hire
1967-1977: 95 years
1924 - 1963: 28 years if never renewed. Maximum 95 years.
Pre-1924 - All copywrights have expired
- munk-a 6y agoUS copyright terms: Pre-Mickey Mouse: Expired Post-Mickey Mouse: Copyrighted for eternity.
- dhosek 6y agoDisney finally gave up that fight. Barring a last minute lobbying effort, Steamboat Willie will be in the public domain on 1 January 2023. Of course the trademarks on Mickey Mouse will be valid in perpetuity.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Barring a last minute lobbying effort, There's always a last-minute lobbying effort.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThe copyright laws in the US are actually Mickey-Mouse laws.
- hinkley 6y agoSo, first, this is someone else's rant that I'm trying to recite from memory, because it sorta stuck with me. And second, I think you are talking about covers, while I am talking about original works. GenX has the song rotation handed down from the Boomers, and then they barely got anything new to hand down, if you exclude satires. I kinda have my fingers crossed for a holiday music Renaissance over the next twenty years. Probably started by a 54 year old Lin Manuel Miranda, trying to rekindle youthful moments. ETA: and a switch to metric
- leoc 6y agoThat doesn't seem to be the cause. Competition from out-of-copyright traditional or nineteenth-century songs didn't prevent pop songwriters from having new Christmas hits until the post-Carey slump, and most of those commercial Christmas hits haven't gone out of copyright themselves yet.