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  2. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Using a large portion of the copyrighted work is less likely to be fair use. However, courts have occasionally found use of an entire work to be fair use, and in other contexts, using even a small amount of a copyrighted work was determined not to be fair use because the selection was an important part—or the "heart"—of the work.

  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 music - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of copyright duration by country - Wikipedia

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    The Norwegian copyright act does not address public domain directly. The Norwegian copyright law defines two basic rights for authors: economic rights and moral rights. [..] For material that is outside the scope of copyright, the phrase «i det fri» («in the free») is used. This corresponds roughly to the term «public domain» in English.

  6. Copyright Act of 1976 - Wikipedia

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    If no notice of copyright was affixed to a work and the work was, in fact, "published" in a legal sense, the 1909 Act provided no copyright protection and the work became part of the public domain. Under the 1976 Act, however, section 102 says that copyright protection extends to original works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression ...

  7. Chord progressions based on the ascending series of 4ths are common in many jazz and pop/rock songs, and can be traced back to Mozart, Bach and earlier,” the music copyright expert told Bored Panda.

  8. Trump lawyers are set to argue in court this week that the ...

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    Trump's lawyers acknowledge that Grant copyrighted the sheet music 40 years ago. But they say he failed to similarly protect the actual recording that people have danced to at parties and ...

  9. Music licensing - Wikipedia

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    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.