ShFemily - San Franscisco Emily, at Harlen Nights Workshop.

And now we have Emily Dodds on Swing Team. We need a designation for her.

I know her! [Emoticon not found]

eh? what personal information? Her home address, social securtity #, bank account?

geek4life:

I just think it's so cool that the EMILIES have their own uniforms now. Very cool [Emoticon not found]

ElChuy:

That was Ash.. I was with her when she wrote it. She thought she was logged in... [Emoticon not found]

So you guys were in a same room at 10:30pm? [Emoticon not found]

Cool toy... what does ash use it for?

Sharing Public domain Swing Clips of course.

Everybody just assumes that P2P is being used for shady dealings when I've used it several times for completley legal high speed content sharing, (OSS, free non infringing music, etc.) and never to get questionable material.

Now that it's been mentioned, I bet there is a lot of big band and jazz music that has fallen into the public domain. I'm under the impression lots of music preceding 1970 would fall into this category. We could put together torrents and list them here in the forums. That way everybody could have a swing collection.

That and the new 1Gb ipod nano is only $149, which actually falls into my budget . . .

Music and lyrics written by an American author and published in 1922 or earlier are in the Public Domain in the United States. No one can claim ownership of a song in the public domain, therefore public domain songs may be used by everyone. PD songs may be used for profit-making without paying any royalties. If you create a new version or derivative of a public domain song, you can copyright your version and no one can use it without your permission. However, the song remains in the public domain, and anyone else can also make and copyright their own version of the same PD song.

Songs change over time. Even though a public domain version exists, some versions may still be under copyright protection. The only way to confidently identify a PD version is to find a copy of the song with a copyright date old enough for public domain status. You can then use that PD version or work from it to create your own derivative work. If you work from a version still under copyright protection, the copyright owner can likely make a valid claim for royalties.

Music recordings are protected separately from musical compositions. Virtually every sound recording in the USA is under copyright protection until 2067. If you need a sound recording, you will either have to record it yourself or license one. A large selection of easily licensed sound recordings can be found in our Royalty Free Music sections.

There are songs written after 1922 which are PD in the US, but only rarely can they be confidently identified without the advice of an attorney or rights clearance agency. Countries other than the US may offer copyright protection for 70 years or more after the death of the author. There is no such thing as an "international copyright". If you wish to use a song outside of the United States, you must check the copyright laws for each individual country where you use the song.

moral of the story? you can use music and lyrics, but if you want recordings to be public domain, you have to wait for at least another 61 years.

your iPod would be obsolete at that point...