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MAPPING COPYRIGHT EXPIRED MATERIALS

This is a personal wiki project, to map out some of the materials for which copyright has expired in Australia. Australian copyright law is different from other countries. Lists of public domain resources found hosted abroad are irrelevant. If only it were as simple as the maximum 56 years from publication found in the USA (but harder to trace than biography dates?). Many organizations hosting online content (such as the Australian Sound archive) blend commercial media with open material, without the ability to search by license. The effect of copyright warnings on mass media, such as television and video products, makes Australians wary of copyright expired materials. This list is not exhaustive, just an indication of what MAY be open for use, without payment or royalties. This project is undertaken without the consent or involvement of the pirate party, other than hosting the wiki space. Working within the law, to show how greenly the cultural grass grows outside the fence of propiety.

List of Australian music composers deceased before 1st Janurary 1955
(WARNING: copyright may remain on advertising, notations or cover art on sheet music out of copyright. Some sheet music contains lyrics, adaptations or parts by multiple authors)
 * Reginald Stoneham (1879-1942)
 * Alex Lithgow (1870-1929)
 * Stephen Moreno (1890-1953)
 * Jack Lumsdaine (1895-1948
 * Thomas Campbell Cockburn (d. 1900's) english baronet and WA premier
 * Walter Turner (1889-1946)
 * Billy Williams (d. 1915) http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn1336195
 * F A Packer (1839-1902)
 * Joe Slater [Alias Felix Leroy] (1872-1926)
 * Alfred Wheeler (1865-1949)
 * Edward Teschemacher (1876-1940)
 * Louis Lavater (1876-1953)
 * Paolo Giorja (1832-1914)
 * Fred Cowen (1852-1935)
 * Alex Lithgow (1870-1929)

List of Non-Australian music composers deceased before 1st Janurary 1955

 * Molly Carew (1886-1953)
 * Lewis, George H, active 1915-1927
 * Adams, A. Emmett, -1938
 * Ben Black (UK) (1889–1950)
 * Egbert Anson Van Alstyne (USA) (1878 - 1951)
 * John Rosamond Johnson (August 11, 1873 – November 11, 1954 Afro-american
 * Kansas Joe McCoy (May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950)[1] was an American Delta blues musician
 * Ancients such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart etc

List of Australian Playwrights deceased before 1st Janurary 1955

 * Louis Esson (1878-1943)
 * Malcolm Afford (1906-1954)
 * Ganert Walsh (d. 1900's)
 * Haddon Chambers (1860-1921)
 * Walter Turner (1889-1946)

Here is a bit of Australian content to demonstrate my enthusiasm. Galvini March (189?) by Alex Lithgow (1870-1929) A re-animation of a rousing old Australian music score.