dc wrote:
Mark D Lew écrit:
Hooray! A public-domain copy of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
There's also an interesting page on copyright laws in different countries:
http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Public_domain
(The site claims to follow Canadian laws itself.)
I was a bit surprised by the following:
"As per Article 70 of the German Urheberrechtsgesetz (copyright law),
scientific editions, which is to say editions which are produced as a
result of scientific analysis (i.e. critical editions and urtext), have
a copyright length of only publication + 25 years, meaning that all
scientific editions published before 1982 is in the public domain in
Germany, and also in Canada via the Rule of the Shorter Term. This would
mean a lot (if not all) of Barenreiter's pre-1982 publications."
Because this would put many fairly recent editions in the PD (and not
only Bärenreiter).
I am not a lawyer, and these are just my observations, but I think we
should all tread very carefully in this area:
I would not put a lot of confidence in this until I had spoken to a
copyright attorney (which I don't have the money to do) in my own
country. And it is important to remember that each of us who live in
different countries need to be aware of our own country's copyright
laws. So that even if the German citation is true and such works are PD
in Germany (something I seriously doubt), should Barenreiter (or any
publisher) register a copyright on their critical editions in the U.S.,
the copyright laws of the U.S. would govern any issues within the U.S.
borders.
This would mean that something could be public domain in Germany (or
Canada or Australia, etc.) and still be locked up tight in the U.S. as a
work-for-hire copyrighted by a corporation with a protection of 95 years.
--
David H. Bailey
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