OK, you've gone to an immense amount of trouble to compile this list which will, I'm sure, be very useful to anyone with questions on such matters. There are exceptions, however; for example, much of the music written in Russia in the Soviet era may be in the public domain even though its composers have not yet been dead for 70 years. There are also exceptions in Mexico and elsewhere, so the 70-year rule, whilst now widely applicable, is not a catch-all and does not apply to all music everywhere. The moral of this is there fore tghat whoever's responsible needs to check to be absolutely certain in each case.It's also worth bearing in mind that composers' copyrights are one thing but publishers' another - and that's a mater of especialy importance as a counter to Ives because, whatever he himself might have sought or desired in this regard, publishers still have to invest money in publishing his work.One composer whose works are all in the public domain but who died only a decade ago is Ornstein, whose son has placed them there.Finally, one might be forgiven for wondering if the music of Elliott Carter will ever go out of copyright; even if the composer were to die today (which God forbid!), his earliest known extant work, a setting of Joyce's My Love is in a Light Attire, will eventually come to have enjoyed copyright status for 154 years!...Best,Alistair
Topic: Public Domain and Copyrights list 