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Vivaldi wrote:Composers born in 1861 not PD in Canada? I don't buy it.

The basis of expiration of copyright is not the Birth of a creator but his/her death. If a composer born in 1861 died at the ripe age of 110 in 1971, his/her work would be copyrighted until 2021 (1971+50) in Canada.

Why don't we publish what is "certainly" Dublic Domain with a note that "critical" or "revised" version exists but that version is under copyright until such date?

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