â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 25, 2017. Yeah, so, why did he like that subtweet of the Grinchâs tiny heart? Does he think anything Christmas-related, no matter how tangential, must be fought for at all costs? Would he have liked a picture of Tim Allen in The Santa Clause? What about a still from Die Hard?
If the Copyright Office has no confirmation that a composer or song-writer is still living and it has been 75 years since the first copyright protection order was granted, or 100 years since the recognized creation date of the piece, it becomes public domain.
So you've scoured the internets in search of music recordings in the Public Domain and found bupkis... If only someone would have gone out and found all of the decent Public Domain recordings and collected them in one spot! If only. Yes, it was a joy trying to slog through 45,000 Public Domain sermons to find some of this stuff.