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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
But surely Le Sacre du Printemps was copyrighted in Switzerland where it was written or France where it was premiered, wasn't it?
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The Rite of Spring was originally copyright in Germany by
Russischer Musik Verlag in 1913. The copyright was transferred to Boosey and Hawkes in 1947.
I have no idea what rules of copyright Stravinsky was allegedly referring to which would possibly put the work into public domain in the U.S. in 1940.