When we were reporting on the government's copyright law review the other day, I said that "if I remember rightly" the current copyright period on a piece of recorded music in the US was 100 years. Turns out I didn't remember rightly - with one CMU Daily reader pointing out the US recorded music copyright runs for 95 years. It seems I was very keen to offer all musical types an extra five years of royalty payments that day - because the publishing copyright in the UK (and the US for that matter) is 70 years after the songwriter's death, and not 75 as I might have said. Apologies. I'll try to stop dozing off whenever I go to a talk on copyright law.
Dec 7, 2005
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Copyright clarification
CMU corrects its earlier claims on copyright terms, noting US recorded music copyright runs for 95 years and UK publishing copyright lasts 70 years after the songwriter's death.