In the US, any song published before 1924.On 8/1/07, Steven Smith, King of the House, Inc. <kingofthehouse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:How much public domain music is there?Again, 20 years ago, I worked with a large theater chain. They were told they had to pay ASCAP fees for the music before and after the show. The owner of the huge Washington chain, instead, managed to locate a bunch of music that was in the public domain. He put that in all theaters. It was not very current, but he got around paying out money for intermission music.