Jack Campin wrote:
>
> > I was only interested in different people's reason for not wanting
> > their music posted so that I could be more informed when the topic
> > came up, like it did in the workshop this past weekend.
>
> Here are some I can think of:
>
> 1. I'm dead and I'm not listening to that ouija board (this is the
> commonest one).
The copyright laws differs from country to country, but as a rule of
thumb: if you've been dead for 70 years or more, there is no copyright
on your stuff, if not, it's up to your heirs.
>
> 2. We're "they" and we're not telling you we are (this is the situation
> with Jimmy Shand's compositions - *he* never managed to trace who all
> the copyright holders were, so a complete edition of his work isn't
> going to happen for decades).
This is mainly a problem in the USA where the copyright laws are set up
mainly to protect the big guys. *Civilized* countries at least pretend
to make an attempt to protect the *originators*, but even then there
might be a few problems.
>
> 3. Publishing this tune is not unconditionally legit but it raises some
> interesting musical points, so I can post it here with limited
> distribution in this discussion context and reasonably expect a court
> to uphold that this is "fair use" (I've done this several times).
Quite a big grey zone here. Since this all started with my posting about
the abcusers tune archive, I should metion that tunes belonging to this
category is ommitted without any fuzz.
>
> 4. This is a work in progress or subject to revision so I want to stay
> in control of it and prevent half-baked copies propagating (Laura's
> position, and one that applies to some of my stuff).
Hmmm... in that case, Jack, you should check if I've included some of
your stuff you'd rather not see on the web.
>
> 5. This belongs in a particular context provided by the file it comes
> from and it would be doing the world a musical disservice to
> distribute it without that contextual information (the story with
> almost all of the material on my website).
>
> 6. The point of posting this tune on the web is as an advertising
> freebie to sell my CDs or get bookings for my artists (this is
> why Paul Cranford has ABCs on his site).
This is sometimes a tricky one. Obviously you'd want as much
distribution as possible for your advertising stuff, but at the same
time you'd like to keep *some* kind of control over it.
>
> 7. This tune is just plain wrong but it throws up some neat bugs in
> the ABC spec or in ABC software (again, I've done that).
Another comment about the tune archive - the abcs there are edited
versions, not necessarily identical in all details to what was posted at abcusers.
Frank Nordberg
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