At 5:13 PM -0500 3/5/07, dhbailey wrote:
Aaron Copland "borrowed" pretty wholeheartedly from a Library of Congress recording of Bonaparte's Retreat for Hoedown, and I've never seen any credits given to the fiddler who made the recording -- I had the great good fortune to hear the recording on the radio, and one single person playing the fiddle played all the notes that Copland took a whole orchestra to play (and they have problems!).
Fascinating!! But it depends on exactly what part of LC you're talking about. If you're talking about the Archive of Folk Culture (not sure what the real name for it is)--the Depression-Era project supervised by Charles Seeger that went out and made field recordings representing Appalachian music--then those field recordings ARE ALL IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. (Made by the government, paid for by the government. Lots of people don't realize that, and the son of one of the people involved in the project claims, to this day, that he "owns" every song that was collected. He doesn't, of course.
But if you're talking about recordings that were copyrighted and deposited in LC's collection, that doesn't apply of course.
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