I have a general question about music copyrights. I've taken and
re-arranged Barber's Adagio for organ, violin and clarinet, for use at
Church. I had no intention of selling this, but it nonetheless got me
wondering about how the copyrights work on music.
When does an arrangement become your own? How does one copyright and
publish an arrangement of someone else's work? Does the composer retain
rights? How much different does an arrangement have to be before it's
your arrangement?
Also, is there a GNU music license out there? If there is, can you sum up
what it says?
Thanks,
Tim
