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On 8 February 2016, a court ruled that the children's song "Happy Birthday to You" was in the public domain and Warner/Chappell Music was required to pay $14 million to the song's licensees. [10] In October 2020, American humorist Tom Lehrer released his entire catalogue, dating back to the 1950s, into the public domain. [11]
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Public domain music scores (720,000) and recordings (79,000), including some contemporary composers. International Music Score Library Project: Inventions of Note: popular music, technology: 50 Sheet music for popular songs and piano compositions, mostly 1890–1920. Lewis Music Library at MIT: Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
There are a number of free sound effects resources of public domain or free content sound recordings appropriate for Wikipedia use available online, and as well as in other contexts. All files should be converted to ogg , Wikipedia's patent-free format of choice.
"Borrowed music" suggests an "innocuous" relationship between the old and new uses though remains unchanged and not a transformative use. "Appropriated music" is the most "charged" term evoking cultural appropriation where "dominant cultures take and use elements of minority cultures for profit and without context".
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
It entered the American public domain on January 1, 2025. [4] Gene Kelly performing the song in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain. The song is famously associated with the history of cinema, as it reached popularity during the transition from silent films to "talkies." Years later, Freed, the song's lyricist, conceived the idea of the film ...
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public-domain music scores.