User:Blackbeard

MAPPING COPYRIGHT EXPIRED MATERIALS I enjoy reading and sharing materials on which copyright has expired in Australia. While not active in politics, I plan to use this wiki space for a personal allied project, to map out some of the materials for which copyright has expired in Australia. Australian copyright law is different from other countries, so we cannot simply use lists of public domain resources found hosted elsewhere. Many organizations hosting online content blend commercial material with free material without the ability to search by license. The effect of copyright warnings on mass media such as television and video products has made Australians unaware that materials exist free of copyright. There is no register or patent office to give legal findings. This list is not exhaustive, narrows the search for what MAY be open for use without, payment or royalties. Other than public wiki space, this project is undertaken without the consent or involvement of the pirate party. Working within the law, to show how greenly the intellectual property 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)
 * Molly Carew (1886-1953)

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.