[CC-ing RMS, who knows a lot more about this, than I do] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mark> How is anyone to know what is original and what is editorial? > Mark> Access to a facsimile, Urtext, or multiple editions could help, > Mark> but in many cases none of those options are available. > > That's the editorial work that goes into producing an utext -- it's > that work that enables you to copyright the result. This is a faulty argument: copyright law entitles you to own the artistic expressions you create, and not the work that went into it. If I would spend a long time to create a piece that happens to be the same as something that Bach wrote, I can not enforce copyright on "my" work. To a certain extent this is the problem with urtexts. Only, we usually have no easy proof that the hard work indeed produced the same as Bach wrote. An interesting read about this is on http://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/growth.html. Look for "labor-desert theory". Does anyone know a forum where we can get more information about this? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
