Music Copyrights Length? Lawyers Inside? :P

[OnanistsCash]

Hey guys, as it seems there is some sort of movement trying to open interesting threads, here it goes mines

Maybe it may not apply that much into porn ... but actually it does as for any other biz, it would be a handfull resource ... For example, if you check one of my trailer clips ( http://www.onanistbabes.com/trailer.php?sid=836 ) i use music on them, its music i have rights to use So not personal worries here ....

But, the other day i found myself listening to a beautiful sexy song written in the 40/50 by Etta James .... So i thought, "dam! this would be really cool with the appropiate content ...", and i thought i heard once something on TV/radio that like after 50 years, the owner of a copyrighted material looses his rights on it and becomes of public interest ...

Just doing some research to make sure what i heard was right found this: "Happy Birthday" was actually composed originally in 1893 but not officially published until 1935. It is protected through 2030 and earns approximately a million dollars every year in royalties. Time Warner bought the copyright on the song ten years ago for $12 million based on what the expected value of its royalties, which was a great deal considering the company also got an additional twenty years worth of royalties when they extended the term.

So ... a part from the great deal Time Warner seems to had closed, how does all this shit works?

Is there a period of time where copyrights of music comes due and i can take it and use it as i wish? As i also saw a lot of other articles talking about re-gathering rights, even by not the OWNER ITSELF of the copyrighted content ... which seemed funny

It seems to be a picky subject, like with all copyright stuff, i guess some can give some input about it here?

[SmokeyTheBear]

fghanistan 0, no copyright.[1] 0, no copyright.
Albania Life + 70 years[2] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[3]

70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (photographic or audiovisual work of joint authorship)[4]
25 years from production (works of applied art)[5]
Yes[6]
Algeria Life + 50 years (except posthumous work)[7] 50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (collective work, anonymous or pseudonymous work, audiovisual work, posthumous work)[8]

50 years from creation (photographs or the work of applied art)[9]
Yes[10]
Andorra Life + 70 years[11][12] 70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (collective work with unknown authorship)[13]

70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[14]
Yes[15]
Angola Life + 50 years[16]

Life + 25 years (photographic works or applied arts)[16]
Yes[16]
Anguilla Life + 50 years[17] 50 years from the death of the author, of the last surviving author for works with more than one author.[17]
Antigua and Barbuda Life + 50 years[18][19] 50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (anonymous or pseudonymous work, computer generated work, sound recording or film)[20]

50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[21]
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of a published edition)[22]
Yes[23]
Argentina Life + 70 years[24] 50 years from publication (anonymous intellectual works belonging to institutions, corporations or legal persons)[25] Yes[26]
Armenia Life + 50 years (except posthumous work first published within 50 years after the author's death)[27] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works; posthumous work first published within 50 years after the author's death)[28] Yes[29]
Aruba Life + 50 years[30]
Australia (including external territories) Life + 70 years[31]

[Life + 50 years (death before 1955)][32]
70 years from publication (sound recordings, cinematograph films)[33]

50 years after making (television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)[34]
[50 years from publication (photographs, no longer applicable since 1 January 2005)][32]
Yes[35]
Austria Life + 70 years[36][37] 70 years from publication; 70 years from creation if unpublished (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[38] Yes[39]
Azerbaijan Life + 50 years (except posthumous work published at first time during 30 years)[40] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work; posthumous work published at first time during 30 years)[41] Yes[42]
Bahamas Berne
Bahrain Life + 50 calendar years (except posthumous work)[43] 50 calendar years from publication (cinematographic films, applied arts works and photographs; anonymous or pseudonymous works; corporate works; posthumous works)[44]

40 years from publication or 50 years from completion, whichever is earlier (computer software)[45]
Bangladesh Life + 50 years
Barbados Life + 50 years[46][47] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[48]

50 years from making (computer-generated work)[49]
50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (sound recordings and films)[50]
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[51]
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of a published edition)[22]
Yes[52]
Belarus Life + 50 years[53] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[54]

50 years from fixation (performance)[55]
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from fixation (phonogram)[56]
50 years from the first broadcast or cable transmission[57]
Yes[58]
Belgium Life + 70 years[59]
Belize Life + 50 years[60]
Benin Life + 50 years
Bermuda Life + 50 years[61]
Berne Convention signatories Life + 50 years[62]

Signatories may grant longer terms.[63]
50 years from publication or if not shown 50 years from creation (cinematographic works)[64]

50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[65]
25 years from creation (photographic works)[66]
Signatories may grant longer terms.[63]
Yes[67]
Bhutan Life + 50 years[68]
Bolivia Life + 50 years[69]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Life + 70 years[70]
Botswana Berne, TRIPS, WCT[71]
Brazil Life + 70 years[72]
British Indian Ocean Territory unknown
British Virgin Islands unknown
Brunei Life + 50 years[73]
Bulgaria Life + 70 years (EU)[74]
Burkina Faso Life + 70 years[75]
Burundi Life + 50 years
Cambodia Life + 50 years[76]
Cameroon Life + 50 years[77]
Canada Life + 50 years[78]
Cape Verde Life + 50 years[79]
Cayman Islands unknown
Central African Republic Berne, TRIPS
Chad Berne, TRIPS
Chile Life + 70 years[80]
China, People's Republic of (Mainland only) Life + 50 years (citizens' works)[81] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (works of legal entities, cinematographic works, films or photographic works)[82] Yes[6]
Colombia Life + 80 years[83] 80 years from publication (cinematographic works)[29] Yes[84]
Comoros Berne
Congo (Democratic Republic) Berne, TRIPS
Congo (Republic) Berne, TRIPS
Costa Rica Life + 70 years[85]
Côte d'Ivoire Life + 99 years (except posthumous works published within this period)[86] 99 years from publication (photographic or audiovisual works or works of applied art; anonymous or pseudonymous works; posthumous works)[87] Yes[88]
Croatia Life + 70 years[89]
Cuba Life + 50 years
Cyprus Life + 50 years
(EU, WCT)[90]
Czech Republic Life + 70 years[91] 70 years from publication (anonymous works)[92] Yes[93]
Denmark Life + 70 years[94]
Djibouti Life + 25 years (Berne, TRIPS)[95] 25 years from publication or if unpublished 25 years from completion (film)[96]

25 years from completion (a photographic work or a work of applied art)[97]
Yes[98]
Dominica Life + 70 years[99]
Dominican Republic Life + 50 years[100]
Ecuador Life + 70 years[101]
Egypt Life + 50 years[102]
El Salvador Life + 50 years[103]
Equatorial Guinea Berne
Eritrea unknown
Estonia Life + 70 years (EU)[104] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[105] Yes[106]
Ethiopia Life + 50 years[107]
European Union members Life + 70 years[108] 70 years from publication or if unpublished 70 years from creation (anonymous works)[109] Yes[25]
Fiji Life + 50 years[110]
Finland Life + 70 years[111] 50 years from publication (sound recordings, television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)[112]
50 years from creation (photographic works)[113]
Yes[114]
France Life + 70 years (except posthumous works published after this term)[115][116]

The following additions to copyright term formerly applied to all works, but the French Cour de Cassation has found them to be superseded by later copyright treaties, thus limiting the copyright term to life + 70 years total, at least for non-musical works of authors who did not "die for France".[117]

+ 6 years 152 days for musical work published through 1920[118]
+ 8 years and 120 days for musical work published through 1947[119]
+ 30 years for all works if the author died on active service[120]
70 years from publication (pseudonymous, anonymous or collective works)[121]

25 years from publication (posthumous works published after Art. L123-1 term)[122]
Yes[123]
Gabon Berne, TRIPS, WCT
Gambia Life + 50 years[124]
Georgia Life + 70 years[125]
Germany Life + 70 years[126] 25 years from first publication or first public performance if copyright has expired before such publication or performance, or if the work has never been protected in Germany and the author died more than 70 years before the first publication [127] Yes[128]
Ghana Life + 70 years[129]
Greece Life + 70 years[130][131] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous works)[132] Yes[133]
Grenada Berne, TRIPS[134]
Guatemala Life + 75 years[135] 75 years from publication or if unpublished 75 years from creation (computer programs and collective works; anonymous or pseudonymous works; audiovisual works)[136] Yes[137]
Guinea TRIPS, WCT
Guinea-Bissau Berne, TRIPS
Guyana Life + 50 years[138]
Haiti Berne, TRIPS[139]
Honduras Life + 75 years[140] 70 years from publication or, if unpublished within 50 years, 70 years from creation (works of applied art and photographs)[141] Yes[141]
Hong Kong[142] Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with known authorship)[143]

Life + 50 years (films)[144]
50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works with unknown authorship)[145]

50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (sound recordings)[146]
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[147]
25 years from publication (typographical arrangement of published editions)[148]
Yes[149]
Yes[

[SmokeyTheBear]

Hungary Life + 70 years[150]
Iceland Life + 70 years[151]
India[152] Life + 60 years (except posthumous works)[153][154] 60 years from publication (posthumous works, photographs, cinematograph films, sound recordings, works of public undertakings, and works of international organisations)[155] Yes[156]
Indonesia Life + 50 years[157]
Iran Life + 30 years[158] 30 years from publication (photographic or cinematographic works)[159]
Iraq Life + 50 years[160]
Ireland Life + 70 years[161]
Israel Life + 70 years[162] 50 years from publication (photographs created till May 2007)[163] Yes[164]
Italy Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][165] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[166]

20 years from publication (copyright of State, the provinces, the communes, the academies or public cultural organizations, or to private legal entities of a non-profit making character)
Yes[167]
Jamaica Life + 50 years[168]
Japan Life + 50 years[169] 70 years from publication or if unpublished 70 years from creation (cinematographic works)[170]

50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (works of a legal person or other corporate body)[171]
Yes[172]
Jordan Life + 50 years[173]
Kazakhstan Life + 50 years[174]
Kenya Life + 50 years (literary, musical or artistic work other than photographs)[175] 50 years from the latest of creation or publication (audio-visual works and photographs)[176] Yes[177]
Kiribati Life + 50 years[124]
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North) Berne
Korea, Republic of (South) Life + 50 years[178] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (organizational works)[179] Yes[180]
Kuwait Life + 50 years[181]
Kyrgyzstan Life + 50 years[182]
Laos 0, no copyright.[183] 0, no copyright.
Latvia Life + 70 years[184]
[Life + 50 years][185] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[186] Yes[179]
Lebanon Life + 50 years[187]
Lesotho Life + 50 years[124]
Libya Life + 25 years with 50-year minimum (as of 1968; may have changed since)
Liechtenstein Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][188]
Lithuania Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][189]
Luxembourg Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][190]
Macau(b) Life + 50 years[191] 50 years from publication (anonymous works)[192]

50 years from publication (audiovisual works)[193]
25 years from completion (works of applied art and photographic works)[194]
Yes[195]
Macedonia Life + 70 years[196]
Madagascar Life + 70 years[197]
Malawi Life + 50 years[198]
Malaysia Life + 50 years[199]
Maldives TRIPS
Mali Life + 50 years[200]
Malta Life + 70 years[201]
Marshall Islands 0, no copyright. Copyright legislation is not known to exist.[202] 0, no copyright.
Mauritania Berne, TRIPS
Mauritius Life + 50 years[203]
Mexico Life +100 years (effective 23 July 2003 non-retroactively)[204]

[Life + 75 years (before the law change on 23 July 2003, applicable for deaths before 23 July 1928)][205]
Micronesia Life + 50 years[206]
Moldova Life + 50 years[207]
Monaco WCT
Mongolia Life + 50 years[208]
Montenegro[209] Life + 70 years[210]
Morocco Life + 50 years[211]
Mozambique Life + 70 years[212]
Myanmar TRIPS
Namibia Life + 50 years (except posthumous works)[213] 50 years from publication (posthumous works)[214]

50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (cinematograph films, photographs and computer programs)[215]
Yes[216]
Nauru unknown
Nepal Life + 50 years[217]
Netherlands[218] Life + 70 years[219] 70 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work, corporate works with no listed natural author)[220]
New Zealand Life + 50 years (literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work)[221] 50 years from creation (computer-generated work)[222] Yes[223]
Nicaragua Life + 70 years[224]
Niger Life + 50 years[225]
Nigeria Life + 70 years (literary, musical or artistic works other than photographs)[226] 70 years from publication (literary, musical or non-photograph artistic works in the case of government or a body corporate)

50 years from publication (cinematograph films and photographs)
50 years from creation (sound recordings)
50 years from publication (broadcasts)[226]
Yes[226]
Norway Life + 70 years[227]
Oman Life + 50 years[228]
Pakistan Life + 50 years[229]
Palau Life + 50 years[230]
Panama Life + 50 years[231]
Papua New Guinea Life + 50 years[232]
Paraguay Life + 70 years[233]
Peru Life + 70 years[234]
Philippines Life + 50 years[235] 50 years from publication (photographic works)[236] Yes[237]
Poland Life + 70 years[238]
Portugal Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][239]
Qatar Life + 50 years[240]
Romania Life + 70 years[241]
Russia Life + 70 years[242]

Rehabilitation + 70 years (for repressed and rehabilitated)

Life + 74 years (for those taking part or working during the war 1941-1945)

Life + 50 years (death before 1943)[243]
Rwanda Berne, TRIPS
St. Kitts and Nevis Life + 50 years[124]
St. Lucia Life + 50 years[244]
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Life + 75 years (literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work)[245] 75 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (sound recording or film)[246]

50 years from creation (computer-generated work)[247]
50 years from creation (broadcast); 50 years after programme included in a cable programme service[248]
Yes[249]
Samoa Berne
San Marino unknown
São Tomé and Príncipe unknown
Saudi Arabia Life + 50 years[250]
Senegal Berne, TRIPS
Serbia[251] Life + 70 years[210]
Seychelles Life + 25 years[252] 25 years from publication (photograph, film, or broadcast)[253]

25 years from creation (sound recording)[254]
Yes[246]
Singapore[255] Life + 70 years (except posthumous work)[256][257] 70 years from publication (posthumous work, photograph)[258]

70 years from publication (sound recordings and cinematograph films)[259]
50 years after making (television broadcasts, sound broadcasts, cable programmes)[260]
25 years from publication (published editions of works)[261]
Yes[262]
Slovakia Life + 70 years[263]
Slovenia Life + 70 years[264]
Solomon Islands Life + 50 years[265]
Somalia unknown
South Africa Life + 50 years (literary or musical works or artistic works, other than photographs)[266] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from creation (cinematography films, photographs, computer programs)[215]

50 years from publication (sound recordings; broadcasts; programme-carrying signals; and published editions)[267]
Yes[216]
Spain Life + 70 years
[Life + 80 years(1879–1987), Life + 60 years(1987–1994)][268]
Sri Lanka Life + 50 years[269] 50 years from publication or if unpublished 50 years from completion (cinematographic, radiophonic or audiovisual work)[270]

25 years from publication (photographic work or a work of applied art)[271]
Yes[272]
Sudan Life + 50 years[273] 25 years from publication (photographic pictures and cinematographic films and other audiovisual works; works published under unknown pseudonym or anonymously)[274]
Suriname Berne, TRIPS
Swaziland Life + 50 years[275]
Sweden Life + 70 years[276] Yes[276]
Switzerland Life + 70 years effective 1 July 1993 non-retroactively, but Life + 50 years for computer programs[277]

[Life + 50 years (before the law change on 1 July 1993, applicable for deaths through 1942)][278]
50 years after performance (performers' rights)[279] Yes[280]
Syria Life + 50 years[281] 10 years from production (photographic, fine arts or plastic arts)[282]
Taiwan, Republic of China (Chinese Taipei) Life + 50 years (except posthumous works first published 40 to 50 years after death)[283] 50 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[284]

50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (corporate works; photographic works, audiovisual works, sound recordings, and performances)[285]
10 years from publication (posthumous works first published 40 to 50 years after death)[286]
Yes[287]
Tajikistan Berne
Tanzania Life + 50 years[288]
Thailand Life + 50 years[289] 50 years from publication or 50 years from creation if not published within 50 years from creation
Timor Leste Life + 50 years[157]
Togo Life + 50 years[290]
Tonga Life + 50 years[291]
Trinidad and Tobago Life + 50 years[292]
Tunisia Life + 50 years[293]
Turkey Life + 70 years[294]
Turkmenistan Life + 50 years[295]
Tuvalu Life + 50 years[124]
Uganda TRIPS
Ukraine Life + 70 years
[Life + 50 years][296]
United Arab Emirates Life + 50 years[297]
United Kingdom Life + 70 years[298] 50 years after release or if not released 50 years after making (sound recordings)[22][299] Yes[300]
United States[301] Life + 70 years (works published since 1978 or unpublished works)[302] 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation whichever is shorter (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, published since 1978)[303]

95 years from publication for works published 1964–1977; 28 (if copyright not renewed) or 95 years from publication for works published 1923–1963 (Copyrights prior to 1923 have expired.)[304]
Yes[305]
Universal Copyright Convention minimum terms Life + 25 years (general works)[306] 25 years from publication (specific works not based on authors' deaths)[307]

10 years (photographic works or to works of applied art)[308]
Uruguay Life + 50 years[309]
Uzbekistan Life + 50 years[310]
Vanuatu unknown
Vatican City Life + 70 years[311]
Venezuela Life + 60 years[312] 60 years from publication; 60 years from creation if unpublished (an audiovisual work, a broadcast work or a computer program)[29]

60 years from publication (anonymous or pseudonymous work)[166]
Yes[313]
Vietnam Berne
Yemen Life + 30 years
Zambia Life + 50 years[314]
Zimbabwe Life + 50 years[315][316] 50 years from publication (photographs)[317]

50 years from creation (Sound recordings)[318]
50 years from publication (cinematograph films, broadcasts)[319]

[SmokeyTheBear]

not a lawyer but from what i see in a nutshell in the usa any music before 1923

[OnanistsCash]

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

not a lawyer but from what i see in a nutshell in the usa any music before 1923

Hey bro! nice fucking awesome list thanks a lot Yeap, so i guess Etta James music is not avaliable

btw, when it says life + X Years, it means X years after owner of copyrights died right? ( Which i guess the profits of the copyrights go to his family then? )