At 11:51 AM +0100 1/11/09, 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...
There may very well be a difference between U.S.
and European copyright law in this regard, as
there is in some other regards (i.e. copyright in
page layout in Europe, which has NEVER been
recognized in U.S. law). I don't believe that
Broude Bros. facsimiles have copyright notices.
John
--
John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:[email protected])
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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