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  2. Public domain music - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_music

    This and similar projects aim to preserve and make readily available thousands of public domain music files, many of which have been recorded by projects dedicated to recording music for public use. Music on the Creative Commons: The Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization created for the purpose of housing the public domain.

  3. Public domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Note that this only applies to recordings and not lyrics/sheet music. For example, all intellectual property rights relating to the sheet music and lyrics to Rhapsody in Blue expired in 2020, when all written works published in 1924 entered the public domain. The recording itself, however, is protected until January 1, 2025.

  4. Public domain - Wikipedia

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    This laid the foundation for the preservation of global music in the public domain, a distinction formalized alongside copyright systems in the 17th century. Musicians copyrighted their publications of musical notation as literary writings, but performing copyrighted pieces and creating derivative works were not restricted by early copyright laws.

  5. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". [1] [2] With the stated purpose to promote art and culture, copyright law assigns a set of exclusive rights to authors: to make and sell copies of their works, to create derivative works, and to perform or display their works publicly. These ...

  6. Music plagiarism - Wikipedia

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    Music plagiarism is the use or close imitation of another author's music while representing it as one's own original work.Plagiarism in music now occurs in two contexts—with a musical idea (that is, a melody or motif) or sampling (taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it in a different song).

  7. Elon Musk's X escapes much of lawsuit over copyrighted songs

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    (Reuters) -X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, on Tuesday won the dismissal of most of a lawsuit by 17 music publishers that accused it of infringing copyrights on nearly 1,700 songs ...

  8. Music licensing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_licensing

    Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music. [1] Music licensing is intended to ensure that the owners of copyrights on musical works are compensated for certain uses of their work. A purchaser has limited rights to use the work without a separate agreement.

  9. Miley Cyrus is sued for allegedly copying a Bruno Mars song ...

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    Tempo Music Investments, which said it owns a portion of the copyright of "When I Was Your Man" after acquiring it from one of the song's writers, Philip Lawrence, brought the suit over the ...