Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
This won't start one, but I do have a general question. :)
I've almost never been asked for Finale files, but tend to provide them
anyway, just so there's a record in more than one place.
...<snippage>...
What do folks normally do? Because I do exclusively new music, it's not
like I'm a jealous guardian of the original files. I feel like they belong
with the composer. On the other hand, I'm not enthused about offering
ongoing help in this way, even though this is an occasional but faithful
engraving client.
If I'm doing work for someone else, whether it is preparing an engraving
of newly composed music, or a re-engraving of existing material, I claim
copyright in the data file. If I distribute any of my files to someone
else, it is with the explict provision that the copyright in the data
file resides with me, and copies of the data file may not be transferred
to any third party without my express permission. While I provide a
copy of the data file, I do not provide any technical support for my
files: it will print out exactly as the score I give him on hardcopy,
but beyond that, any editing is on his own.
The main reason I distribute data files this way, is that the composer
explicitly allow me the right to use excerpts of the score in my
portfolio, if I choose, and his obtaining a copy of my data file is in
consideration for this right. If he objected to giving me this right to
use the score for demonstration purposes, I would probably decline to
provide a copy of the data file.
ns.
Dennis
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