At 12:34 AM +0100 2/6/07, shirling & neueweise wrote:
Au contraire! Petrucci, in Venice, held a monopoly lasting 20
years on the printing of part music and lute tablature, with his
first print ("Odhecaton A") appearing in 1501. And I think it was
Tallis and his student, Byrd, who had Liz's monopoly on the
printing of music and music paper, later passed on to Byrd and HIS
student Morley.
yes, but i'm talking about performance royalties. that is
mechanical (distribution) rights. although of course in some
languages royalties means essentially rights without specifications
as to WHAT rights and would have to be clarified in context.
Ah, but your question spoke to late 18th, early 19th century
practices. The terms you're now using are all 20th century. Under
U.S. law, "performance royalties" didn't exist until 1909, and
"mechanical rights" refer strictly to recordings, and have nothing to
do with distribution of sheet music. Three separate things, treated
three separate ways in the law. Yeah, it's complicated! And of
course those terms would have absolutely nothing to do with Royalty.
John
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