Martin Banner wrote:
Go to www.hinshawmusic.com
There's a brand new book on this subject written by Rob Monath, entitled
"By The Book".
Thanks for the link -- have you read the book? $14 for a 77-page book
seems like a pretty steep price for not a lot of book!
I'd love to know if anybody has read this book and can give us a review
slanted to those of us in the engraving/publishing field as well as to
performers to know if it's really valuable information or simply
rehashing the same details we go over on this list from time to time.
Interestingly, Amazon also has the book for sale but there's no
discount. There is, however, a "review", from which the following is a
quote:
"As Monath explains in the Preface, By the Book, "is not crammed with
miscellaneous facts, rules, qualifiers, and exceptions." As a person who
"has witnessed death by Power-Point presentation," Monath instead
demonstrates a workable strategy for anticipating and avoiding common
music copyright problems. "You do not need to be an expert," writes
Monath, "but you do need to know how to protect yourself." The book is
clearly written and entertainingly presented. The cartoons will be
especially appreciated by anyone who has addressed the vexing issues
that copyright law presents on a daily basis."
It sounds as if this is a general guideline expensive pamphlet rather
than a precise guide which is what it sounded as if the original poster
was asking for. The table of contents, which is viewable, doesn't seem
to offer much guidance to the minutiae which many of us are concerned
with when we deal with copyright issues. I bet it doesn't cover Kim's
situation (wanting to print out pages from a copyrighted microfiche
collection of clearly public domain works) at all.
--
David H. Bailey
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