At 10:10 AM -0400 7/26/06, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
On 7/26/06, Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The library does have the sole copyright, and can give the publication rights to whoever they please, for money if they choose so.
Yes, that's the case. A publisher told me that a library in Germany refused to give him permission to publish any editions from their manuscripts. He was rather disappointed because he didn't think the other publisher was even interested in the pieces he was intending to print.
Don't forget that it isn't just libraries. Unique mss. in
private hands or private collections are under the complete control of
whoever owns the physical items, and has nothing to do with
copyright. I understand that this is the case with some of Fanny
Mendelssohn Hensle's mss. If they were published they would no
doubt come under copyright as previously unpublished items, but in the
meantime he simply won't let anybody see them.
A friend of mine who was in Germany on a Fulbright grant, told me the mindset in Europe is completely different versus here in the States: access to viewing the manuscripts, ordering copies of them, publishing rights. But she was lucky, the library was very friendly and open, and not restrictive about all this. Another friend told me one library in Germany only allows you to view *five* manuscripts a day. And they don't bend the rules. He had travelled from the U.S. to see the collection; but the library staff didn't care.
Not quite the same, but when my wife started at Indiana
University in the 60s there was a graduate-student-only section in the
library, and undergrads had to get special permission to enter it.
And when she needed to do some research at the Oriental Institute in
Chicago she had to take a letter of introduction on I.U. stationery.
So while an anal attitude is not the norm in the U.S., you can find it
in some places.
John
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