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copyrights and dead folk

howdy.

how do copyrights work with classical music and other such stuff, where people have been dead for a looooong time?

i mean, do people have the right to copy it after a while or what, and who owns the copyrights to these pieces?

for example, i read that the copy right for gershwin's rhapsody in blue is due to run out in 2007 in europe (and 2010 or something in teh US). so what does that mean? could i purchase the copyright when it expires (money permitting)?

its all so bizarre!
Reply 1
All I know is that under UK performing rights law, all recordings must be of pieces composed and/or arranged by composers who died in, or before, 1934.

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