Public domain music. there never were copyrights. In the U.S., any musical works published before 1922, in addition to those voluntarily placed in public domain, exist in the public domain. In most other countries, music generally enters the public domain in a period of fifty to seventy-five years after the artists' death.
The American Enlightenment is a period of intellectual ferment in the thirteen American colonies in the period 1714â1818, which led to the American Revolution, and the creation of the American Republic.he Scottish Enlightenment also influenced American thinkers. David Hume's Essays and his History of England were widely read in the colonies, and Hume's political thought had a particular influence on James Madison and the Constitution.
The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason;[1] in French: le SiÃ¨cle des LumiÃ¨res, lit. 'the Century of Lights'; and in German: AufklÃ¤rung, 'Enlightenment')[2] was an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, The Century of Philosophy.[3] The ...