Gexa is an action / skill game that increases in difficulty with time. Because of that, I thought that the music piece Bolero of the french composer Maurice Ravel would fit perfectly. Especially, as it is in public domain since April 2016.
Here comes Mickey. Disney is afraid to loose the copyright of Mickey Mouse and all the other Disney characters to the public domain. Because of that, the company, along with other companies, lobbies to keep extending the copyright duration of material published after 1922.
At first I thought that it's a pity, but Ravel was French, so that does not have to concern me. But, as so often, I was wrong. International copyright treaties are not that easy. Again, the US government monkeywrenched my plans: there is a rule of the shorter term that says that material from foreign origin which has a shorter copyright period than the own contry is legal to use. But, of course, the US, among others, does not respect that rule.
So no Ravel for me. Instead, I have chosen Dance Macabre from Sait-Saens - he is longer dead :)
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