[Afamilyatwar-list] I’m So Confused.....

[Tim Douglas]

In British law copyright exists for 70 years after the death of the creator ,therefore the music used in the  AFAW intro will still be in copyright till 2028 '(if UK law applied to  Khachaturian, Sabre dance ,for example would still be in copyright till 2048,but it is probably different under Russian law (if there still is a Russia ?)  So as I sad before , someone could do an arrangement of Sabre dance in 2048 and though there will no loner be a fee to pay to Khachaturian's estate , there may be a fee to pay to the arranger , or his estate , if he subsequently died, till possibly 2118,one hundred years hence !


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From: Scott Filderman <scottfilderman at yahoo.com>
To: Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list <afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu>; Tim Douglas <tdou525473 at aol.com>; William Murphy <lobsanghoskins at yahoo.com>; Brian Renforth <renforthb at live.co.uk>
Sent: Tue, 1 May 2018 13:54
Subject: I’m So Confused.....

Mr. Murphy kindly wrote to say that he picked the music used in The Onedin Line, and explained the errors of my “public domain” asseverations. Richard Doubleday picked the theme for AFAW.

Of course, time of transmission was the 70s. Has adequate time passed (almost 50 years) so that copyright is no longer an issue? Certainly, some Russian composers have complex relations with Western countries, like Khachaturian, so their scores are difficult to come by. Only in the past 20 years has Shostakovich’s scores been readily available.

Anthony Isaac is listed as music adviser for the first 6 seasons. Mr. Murphy came on, at least as IMDb knows, in Series 7 and was succeed by someone else for the remainder.

I stand ready to be flogged with a cat-o-nine-tails! Shiver me timbers!!

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