Christmas Cd

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I'm going to make my own instrumental Christmas Cd, and hopefully distribute it at christmas time to family, friends, ect. This will be the first album i will produce. my question is are christmas songs basically public domain??
 
Pre-1923 is usually safe.

Post-1923 is usually not. At least in the US.

It's not quite that simple, but it's a starting point. Most carols are safe. Most pop tunes aren't.

Oh, and one I've already done the legwork on: Pietro Yon's Gesu Bambino is now public domain.

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thanks for the sites, i'm checking them out. The first one seems only to apply to distributing to the masses right, i'm GUESSING i should be allright if i distribute just to a few people
 
SGPIANOMAN said:
thanks for the sites, i'm checking them out. The first one seems only to apply to distributing to the masses right, i'm GUESSING i should be allright if i distribute just to a few people
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The first one was just for a "search engine" to find if a particular site is pub. domain. You could also license a non-pub. song if you want.

Public domain is public domain, whether you just give your mom a copy or distribute it to everyone in the world.
 
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