Copyright Music and Lyrics

When writing music you get the copyrights for that for 95 years, if you did you get the copyright for 70 years after your death. Having the copyrights to music or lyrics is saying that know one else can copy that. January 1st, 2019 is the current public domain music in the U.S. Public Domain is where anyone can use it without citing the source, including where it came from and who it came from. Proof of Public Domain is where you have to site the source of the music, movie, book, etc.
The song was on the album “Seven Dreams” originally by Gordon Jenkins. Fifteen years after Johnny Cash wrote “Sweet Dreams: The Conductor” , the two songs were compared and some of the lyrics were word for words or only a couple of words were changed. Although, Johnny Cash’s song was a more talented piece, it was still copyright. In 1968 the out of court settlement was about one-hundred-thousand dollars.