On 10:57 Uhr dc wrote:
I've never heard of anything like a "typographical copyright" in
France, but I'm no expert on these questions.
By the way, I'm very intrigued by Swiss law on copyright, after
reading in a _facsimile_ of a public domain work (Rousseau's
Dictionnaire de musique):
WARNING This publication is protected by Swiss law on copyright. Any
reproduction or transcription [!] - even partial - by any means would
constitute a counterfeiting punished by articles 42 ff of said law.
PHOTOCOPY PROHIBITED.
So here's a publishers who reproduces an 18th-century edition and
prohibits anyone from even transcribing part of it.
Obviously any publisher can write anything into their edition, right or
wrong. However, although I am convinced that there is no way this can be
fought through in court, from a restricted legal point of view they may
indeed be correct, and the same will apply in Germany, too.
The reprint itself of that admittedly public domain work may well be
copyrightable. I wouldn't be surprised if even the cleaning of spots and
ink marks may qualify this for copyright, indeed even bringing it out as
a bound book may constitute reason for copyright, any kind of work that
has gone into the new publication might be enough to make this a
copyrightable publication.
Of course this wouldn't stop anyone from getting a copy of the original
book elsewhere (including a public library) and make a photocopy.
German (photo-)copying laws for music and books are extremely rigid.
Again, I am not really competent enough in copyright laws to make any
claims to being right with any of this. If anyone knows otherwise please
let me know.
Johannes
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