> 3.  In some countries, the same applies for editions.  This could be
> relevant to the Bach example.  If a modern person has edited the music,
> then they hold the copyright on the edition.  This does not stop you from
> removing the editorial features - remove all editorial slurs, phrasemarks,
> ornaments etc and only leave those that you know to be original.  You can
> then add some of your own if you want to be your own editor.

Interesting.  This brings up more questions:

Can you copyright an Urtext, an edition that (supposedly) reproduces what
the composer originally wrote?

How is anyone to know what is original and what is editorial?  Access
to a facsimile, Urtext, or multiple editions could help, but in many
cases none of those options are available.

Mark Fardal
Amherst, MA

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