On 4 Sep 2005 at 9:31, dhbailey wrote: > For instance, Hal Leonard has brought out a couple of fake books of > obviously public domain material, either material old enough to be > public domain but with known composers, or folk songs with no known > composer and also old enough to be public domain, and on each song in > each book they have a copyright claim such as "copyright © 2000 by Hal > Leonard Corporation" -- I realize there could be a valid copyright > claim on the entire collection of songs within that book, such that > nobody could simply photocopy the entire book and sell it as their > own, but there is no valid copyright claim in any of the individual > songs.
If there are chords in there, it constitutes an arrangement, as every melody can be harmonized in more than one way. So, I see no problem with their copyright claim at all. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
