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Summary: Learn how long a music copyright lasts in this free DIY legal music rights video from our band management expert. Make sure you have the songwriter rights to your songs!

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How Long Does a Music Copyright Last?

Copyrights have a length of time that they are protected by. This is the duration. In general, copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978 subsists from its creation, and except as provided by the following subsection, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author and 70 years after the author's death. In instances of joint works, where there have been two people who have done the copyright, the term refers... goes until 70 years after the last remaining death. Previously to 1978, any works that were created before then last only a total of 75 years. Twenty-eight years after the work has been written, you can renew your copyright for forty-seven years. This was an amendment amended in 1992, for an act, so the length can be sustained.

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