Mandelstam Rights/Estate

[Robert Chandler]

SEVENTY years in Britain, Russia and probably all European countries!

And, in the case of posthumous work, it is 70 years from first publication.

But this recording should indeed be public domain.

Robert Chandler




> The basic law of copyright is now that an estate can hold all rights
> for only 50 years after the death of the original artist. After that,
> it is all in the public domain.
> 
> Anyse
> 
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 8:36 PM, Kevin M. F. Platt wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> A contact is digitizing (for web-distribution) a recording of
> Mandelstam made in 1925, and asks me if I know what the status of the
> poet's estate is--is there an executor/foundation/entity that would
> hold the rights, or would this be public domain?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> kp
> 
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> Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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