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I posted Elgar's Nursery Suite yesterday, but it's been blocked as copyright in the USA. Now, as far as I'm aware, the publisher (Keith Prowse) went out of business decades ago, and the Nursery Suite is now not available - at all! What, therefore, is the status of a publication when the publisher ha...

There's actually no copyright notice at all, so far as I can see. The Title-page simply reads: "Elgar as I knew him / By/ William H. Reed / London / Victor Gollancz Ltd / 1936", and the reverse of this page has a note at the bottom: "Printed in Great Britain by / The Camelot Press Ltd...

Yep, the sketches in Reed’s book entered the EU public domain after 2004 - in other places they had already become public domain after 1984 or 1986, and the sketches (separate of Reed’s book) may not have ever been registered in the US. I think the amount in Reed’s book is somewhere in the vicinity...

Hmmm... best not to post Reed's descriptions, then, I guess! (The information he gives can easily be summarised in any case!) How about the actual facsimiles of Elgar's sketches that Reed gives, though? I seem to remember Anthony Payne saying that they expired (in the EU at least) back in 2005?

Hi, Just wondering about the status of the sketches for Elgar's Third Symphony - specifically, those which were published in W H Reed's book, Elgar As I Knew Him in 1936. I know the unpublished sketches in the British Library are still in copyright in the EU, but as far as I thought, the selections ...

I'm just wondering if there's any particular reason why works that are in copyright only in the US are blocked to the whole world, whereas works that are in copyright only in the EU are freely available. Just seems a bit odd to me. Ravel, for instance. Many of his works are blocked, despite them bei...

(e.g. someone suggested going to Canada, downloading all the scores on to a USB memory stick or similar, and coming home with it in your pocket) it would be completely impossible for different countries to have different copyright terms. Whoever suggested that was being silly. Equally well, we have...

Irishmaestro, you're not getting the crux of the dispute here. IMSLP is located in Canada and abides by Canada's copyright laws (where the term is life-plus-50), not the EU's. Universal is demanding that IMSLP enforce EU copyright laws upon the entire world. IMSLP was founded and run entirely on a ...

There point of view (at least by their posts here) have been to wildly accuse feldmahler of censorship, incompetence, purposefully promoting illegal activities amongst other things. They are not protecting the composers rights, for they are dead. They are protecting their own and have tried to mani...

While I completely understand UE's point of view (and almost wholly agree with it). I still fail to see how the music of Gustav Mahler that had been uploaded could possibly be protected by copyright. (.) Gustav Mahler died in 1911, which means that (in Ireland and the UK at least) the copyright for ...