Tag: pre-1972 sound recording

A colleague asked about the public domain status of a short musical play that was written in 1959 in honor of a local event. The writers never intended to profit from the musical and in fact gave away recordings of the
musical.

An interesting question. I would say that the fact that a work was given away does not by itself place the work in the public domain without some affirmative action by the creator to place the work in the public domain.

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