At 12:41 PM -0500 3/15/06, Phil Daley wrote:
I arrange stuff all the time for the groups that I direct. Probably
illegal arrangements ;-)
We perform them in church, obviously no monetary situation.
Perhaps someone could even tell me if this is legal:
1. I take a Bach chorale and arrange it for a bell choir.
The Bach arrangement and the chorale itself are PD. You can not only
arrange it, you can copyright your arrangement.
2. I take an SATB choral piece and arrange it for TTBB.
This is a little trickier. There is a Fair Use provision allowing
you to "edit or simplify" legally purchased music. (Those may not be
the exact words, and using this provision to do an end run around the
arranging permission requirement might land you in court. Or it
might not, especially if the publisher does not offer a TTBB version.)
John
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