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Reliquary of English Song (Various) - http://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP70073-Va ... 700%29.pdf

This is described as 'Public Domain' , Whilst this may be the case in Canada where the IMSLP servers are,
It's not PD in the US (a 1943 renewal exists - which was found during examination of relevant Copyright Catalog entries held in Scan form on Google Books).

It would be appreciated if you could consider changing the license tag, to indicate that the work is only PD in Canada.

Sfan00 wrote:It's not PD in the US (a 1943 renewal exists - which was found during examination of relevant Copyright Catalog entries held in Scan form on Google Books).

The item is correctly tagged, being out of copyright in virtually the entire world (with the possible exception of Mexico); it is only the original date of copyright that matters, especially if it's a pre-1923 item. This publication was registered in 1915, which gave it a protection period of 28 years, after which it had to be renewed - which it presumably was, on time (this is on the cover of the PDF as well) - and therefore got a full period of 75 years. So the US copyright for this score expired on 1 Jan. 1991.

That wasn't my understanding, (re the 75 Years thing)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commo ... yrights.29
seems to say 95 years from publication, not 75, due to the Copyright Term Extension Act.

However, 1915+95 = 2010 - So even with a confirmed 1943 renewal - the extension this work entered US public domain sometime last year.

So it seems even under the extension, the work IS now PD-US.

Yes, the 95-year term is for items published after 1922 only. The extension was not retroactive to stuff before that (1997-75 years=1922, which is where the cutoff date comes from - they only extended it for things still under copyright at the time), so it was indeed protected for only 75 years. Anything published before 1923 can be assumed to be PD in the US because of this.