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Posted: 16 Jul 2016 8:55 am
by Adam Nero
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by Adam Nero
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Posted: 16 Jul 2016 11:08 am
by Terence Palmer
"Works published before 1964 in the US are all in the public domain, excepting only those for which a renewal was registered with the US copyright office. Relatively few works from this era have had their copyrights renewed. A US copyright office study in 1961 found that fewer than 15% of registered copyrights had been renewed."

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15.pdf
http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/copyr ... newal.html

Posted: 16 Jul 2016 12:13 pm
by Doug Beaumier
The old JB books were published by Rickenbacker Co., which is still in business. So maybe those copyrights were renewed....? I have often wondered about the old Emmons Co. tablature from the 1970's. As far as I know Emmons Co. is out of business now and those tab packages have not been available for many years. I wonder if that material is still under copyright?