Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:00:21AM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> Do you know of any famous pieces of music without freely accessible
> scores?  I have only one shot now, but it isn't perfect: Samuel
> Barber's "Adagio for Strings" was composed in 1936 but the composer
> died not-so-long-ago (1981).  Still, it's possible that in some
> countries the work itself might be out of copyright.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I believe that
this work is still in copyright in every country that is a
signatory to the Berne convention -- which means pretty much
everywhere.

- Graham