Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 5:34 Uhr John Howell wrote:
That is actually not surprising at all. Because U.S. copyright law
was based on date of first publication, and most European law was
based on the lifetime of the composer, a great many works were in
copyright in Europe but in the public domain in the U.S. Not a grey
area at all, just a matter of geography.
In Europe there is also a copyright of the engraving itself, which I
understand is not possible in the US. In Europe it is simply illegal to
reprint an engraved page as long as it is in copyright (75 years?). It
makes no difference whether it contains any editorial additions at all.
Johannes
But if a person has one of those engraved/copyrighted editions where no
significant editorial additions were made to a public domain work (e.g.
a Bach organ prelude), is a person in Europe legally able to make their
own version using that copyrighted-for-engraving edition?
Using Finale or Sibelius or whatever, is it legal for you to make your
own engraving using someone else's engraving as the original, as long as
your page design is different from the original? I realize that, the
way you explained things you couldn't make a photocopy even if the
original music is out of copyright.
(I hope I asked this question clearly enough.)
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David H. Bailey
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