At 6:39 PM -0500 11/13/06, dhbailey wrote:
This is an interesting copyright question -- since the Finale file is simply one more representation of the music which the client holds the copyright in, I'm surprised he would assign you a copyright in the file, since you can't do anything with it as it represents his copyrighted work, just as he can't do anything with the finale file he has granted you copyright in.
I had a similar reaction to Hamilton's post. Would not the Finale file be a derivative work, done for hire, with the copyright vested in the copyright owner of the music? (Just in case someone in this discussion is outside the U.S., page layout has never been covered by copyright in the U.S., unlike in some European countries.) But then I've never understood how copyright works in the case of computer programs, which can be a can of worms in academia where someone may have started writing a program while employed at one university, perhaps funded by an outside source, and continue writing it at two other universities! But of course a Finale file is not a computer program. Or is it?
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