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Originally Posted by Murphy Slaw
Wait a minute Cowboy.
50 years is getting real close to the BEATLES.
U.S copyrights are better as I recall.
I understood mine are good for 75 years after my death. Am I wrong?
Curious.
Best of luck.
Murph.
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Your correct, the US copyrights are the longest in the world. They are 75 years after the death of original copyright holder.
In the UK (and most of Europe) works automatically go to public domain 50 years after first published.
The music industry tried to get it
changed to 95 years last year, but they were unsuccessful. So starting this year some of Cliff Richards first big hits will stop receiving royalties and will be public domain.
I think the Beatles catalog was also copyrighted here in the states so they will continue to receive royalties on that, but pretty soon those songs will be public domain in most of Europe.