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Is the bluegrass song Nine Pound Hammer a traditional public domain song or is it copyrighted?
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∙ 14y ago
As with many questions of copyright the answer is... it depends. There are several versions of the song and elements can be traced back as far as 1891.
The easiest way to answer is that any lyrics composed after 1923 are probably still under copyright protection (assuming of course the proper paperwork was filed and renewed) As to the music, there is a good possibility that it does reside in the public domain since, according to "The Rural Roots of Bluegrass by Wayne Erbsen" (pp 130-31), the tune may have been "borrowed" from "Swannanoa Town" collected by Cecil Sharp in 1916.
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