Debussy wanted to distance himself from what he considered the emotional excess of the Romantics and instead wanted to write music that, through sound, created an ambience similar to that of the Impressionist painters and Symbolist poets of his day.
All books initially copyrighted in the US from 1964 through 1977 have had their copyrights automatically renewed (by law) and the copyrights are still in force. The initial copyright term was 28 years; the renewal was for 67 more years.
Amazon made that possible single-handedly.â. It did so with its introduction of the Kindle in 2007. That year, Amazon released Kindle Direct Publishing. (Authors can also publish print copies through Amazonâs CreateSpace program.) Due to far lower production costs, e-books have allowed for a new type of self-publishing.