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Kind of a weird corner case for copyright law; a piece whose copyright expires part way through the performance. Presumably it expires (in the U.S.) 70 years a
by elihu 5y ago
Kind of a weird corner case for copyright law; a piece whose copyright expires part way through the performance. Presumably it expires (in the U.S.) 70 years after John Cage's death (1992 + 70 = 2062), but if it had instead been produced by a corporation and the score wasn't published ahead of the performance, each portion of the performance would presumably expire 95 years after that portion first played. However, there's apparently also a rule that corporate copyrights also expire 120 years after creation regardless of when they were published.
- b3morales 5y agoIt's not really relevant. There isn't a copyright in the performance itself, and if they had permission to start the performance, then the expiry of the copyright certainly doesn't prevent them from finishing.
- elihu 5y agoI was thinking more about the copyright on the score, and whether other people would be able to freely copy it, make their own recordings, create derivative works, and so on.
- jancsika 5y agoIf you can't even finish the piece before its copyright expires, then the duration for copyright protection is way too short! Is there a list of edge cases like these collected somewhere? E.g., this piece for music performance duration, avocados for a high-fat content fruit, qmail's small issue list, etc. I'd like to use it as a reference to sharpen my shitposting.