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Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud'
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james |
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Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud' |
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Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:34:11 +0100 |
On Mar 8, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Tim Slattery wrote:
> Mike Blackstock <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> This paper might be of interest to anyone typesetting public domain
>> music from so-called copyrighted scores:
>> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244
>
> Excellent article, even if it is 7 years old.
>
> I'm in a singing group. We sing madrigals and some baroque pieces, all
> several hundred years old. I see books all the time with copyright
> notices all over the place on songs that were written 300 to 500 years
> ago. I wonder just what is under copyright? Words and music certainly
> are not. Any foreword, biographical material, commentary certainly is.
>
> If the editor went to an old source, transcribed the piece into more
> modern notation, added measures, key signature, time signature, does
> that make the product copyrightable? If I make a copy with Lilypond,
> is that infringement? Since I've produced sheet music for a public
> domain work, I don't think so.
It's exactly these things: articulations, editorial annotations, expressive
marks, that are under frequently copyright. Unfortunately, you have to find a
version that predates the copyrighted version you're looking at in order to
know exactly what the new edition added and what was in the source material.
And since different editors may have added different editorial marks, there can
be two different editions that are both out of copyright but have different
editorial annotations. So the new edition may have used one or several previous
editions in creating the editorial annotations for their current edition.
- Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Mike Blackstock, 2013/03/08
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Pierre Perol-Schneider, 2013/03/08
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Tim Slattery, 2013/03/08
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Tim McNamara, 2013/03/08
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud',
james <=
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', David Kastrup, 2013/03/09
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Henning Hraban Ramm, 2013/03/09
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Urs Liska, 2013/03/09
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', David Kastrup, 2013/03/09
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', David Kastrup, 2013/03/09
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Urs Liska, 2013/03/09
- Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Hilary Snaden, 2013/03/10
Re: Excellent paper on 'Copyfraud', Urs Liska, 2013/03/09