David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
Chord progressions, according to all I've read and heard, can't be
copyrighted. Who would "own" the blues? Neither can titles.
--
David H. Bailey
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