On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:51 AM, dc wrote:
Kim Patrick Clow écrit:
I asked the music reference librarian at the NYPL about this. Saur
Verlag does not own copyright on the music as far as the NYPL is
concerned and U.S. law) because the music is public domain and you
can't copyright a photographic reproduction of the manuscript.
All of Minkoff's facsimiles have a very restrictive copyright
notice. Not only do they state the facsimile can't be copied, but
also that it can't be transcribed, even partially. I'd be curious
to know how much of this is bluff...
So would I. I have seen many times companies putting out reprints of
century or centuries-old manuscripts with no changes except for the
strongly-worded copyright notice threatening to torture your first-
born if you so much as think about making a copy. There has to be a
law against fraudulent copyright notices, isn't there?
Christopher
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