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Works not covered by copyrights--including ones with copyrights that have expired and those that never secured this protection--are said to be in the "public domain."
This took some doing, because the Anthology was in effect a bootleg--the original recordings had been imperfectly documented if at all, the artists were paid small flat fees and sent in most cases back to obscurity, but the copyrights had accrued to large publishing consortiums.
They now stand at 95 years for copyrights held by corporations.
Beyond plagiarism and misattribution, it is not clear what uses of primary research articles authors would actually want to prevent (other than, perhaps, the commercial uses that their work is already susceptible to, in many cases, when publishers hold copyrights).
Why don't American screenwriters own the copyrights to their scripts, as playwrights do, and as (I'm told) screenwriters in Europe do?