On 13:54 Uhr dhbailey wrote:
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?
That is the question, isn't it? To be honest, I am not even sure whether there is one answer to that. The answer, as so often the case, is it depends.
Problem is, it might be enough to just make a decision on the reading of a manuscript.
However, I don't think in reality there would be much of a case if someone did indeed use an existing edition, unless the publisher of that existing edition can make a clear case that his edition either included editorial decisions or qualifies as a critical 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 don't think the page design has much to do with it. It probably really depends on the nature of the original edition, and whether any decisions were made that qualify as an editorial effort.
I realize that, the way you explained things you couldn't make a photocopy even if the original music is out of copyright.
Absolutely. Are you sure this would be different in the US? If you brought out a new edition of a work by Bach, could anyone photocopy your edition and sell that?
(I hope I asked this question clearly enough.)
Sure, it's just a question of whether there are clear answers... Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
