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Interesting! Thanks for the info. I am curious though, where did you learn about this, and other such tid-bits about copyright, socialism, and the like. (I am rather interested in this kind of information!)

~NightStryke

I've got a question... (For context, I live in the US) As I have been browsing IMSLP I keep noticing pieces of sheet music that have been published far past 1923 (i.e. in the '50's and '60's) , and yet are still listed as "in the public domain" here on IMSLP? Am I missing something? Or are...

Thank you for your help!

~Nightstryke

That is really interesting, thanks guys! One more follow up question. Another piece of sheet music that Schirmer sells is the "Kreutzer Forty-Two Studies or Caprices For the Violin). Now, I actually have this, and at the bottom of the first page of music there is this warning: "Copyright 1...

If hypothetically I wanted to print public domain sheet music, and sell it myself. Would this be legal? Obviously I think that it would be, but I do have a couple situations I'm not sure about... What if I wanted to sell Bach's "The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1". Schirmer published a versi...