the 1984 Winter Olympics, receiving perfect 6.0s for artistic merit. The eight-minute short film Le batteur du Boléro (1992) by Patrice Leconte concentrates on the drummer, played by Jacques Villeret, and the problems of his musical part. The film was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. This song played during the torch-lighting ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It was used by Kamila Valieva in her record-breaking 2021-22 season's free skate program. Public domain This piece's copyright expired on 1 May 2016 for many countries, but not worldwide. The work is public domain in Canada, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, and many others where the copyright term is "Life + 50 years". It is also public domain in the European Union (where the term is Life + 70 years). In the U.S., Boléro remains under copyright until 1 January 2025 as it was first published in 1929 with the prescribed copyright notice. The last remaining rights owner, Evelyne Pen de Castel, has entered a number of claims that the work was in fact co-composed with the designer Alexandre Benois. The effect would be to extend the copyright until 2039. The claims have been rejected repeatedly by French courts and the French authors society Sacem. References Notes Bibliography Further reading External links Compositions by Maurice Ravel Ballets by Maurice Ravel 1928 ballet premieres Ballets by Bronislava Nijinska 1928 compositions Compositions in C major Stefan Zweig Collection