Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

[Hans Aberg]

On 19 Jan 2012, at 21:58, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:05 -0800, Bernardo Barros wrote:
>>> Open software people tend to consider artists as being
>>> equivalent to programmers, so they think artists
>>> should starve. I have no sympathy with that view.
>>> Obviously. Knowledge should be free, Yale to the
>>> contrary. Art shouldn't be free until the artist gets his.
>> 
>> The source code of the lilypond score is not the `music' or even
>> `art', so maybe people get confused.
> 
> That is true of the program code, but not the data.

According to the WIPO Copyright Treaty, computer programs are protected as 
literary works as in the Berne Convention:
  http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html#P56_5626

> The
> document must carry a copyright notice if it contains
> the notes, because it is the composition written in a
> form of musical notation. The complete source, published
> with a copyright notice, would copyright the piece. 
> Published without the notice, all copyright would be
> lost.


This is not the case in the US since 1989:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice

Hans