Hans Pizka wrote: It is not a matter of being sued or not, it is a matter of fairness each other not to use other peoples propriety without proper permission.
I suggest it's too early to talk about suing anybody anyway. If you feel you have been wronged, legally or morally, why not simply write to IMSLP to let them know your position. My understanding (and I'm not an expert) is that if you had to clarify unclear parts, or needed to use specialist photographic techniques this may count as a creative endeavour and you may have a claim to copyright over the images, albeit perhaps for a reduced period of time. I have had some dealings with IMSLP through having copied out-of-copyright horn methods into pdfs, and I transcribed the Beethoven Horn Sextet. The website is very cautious about copyright issues, and if there's any possibility of an infringement I'm sure they will take the content down. IMSLP also has a primer on copyright that goes into quite a lot of detail over reprints and scholarly editions: http://imslp.org/wiki/Public_domain. One particular quote: "Although it is unlikely that this type of edition, apart from any editorial prefaces, annotations and commentary, contains [sic] insufficient original material to qualify for copyright status in Canada, IMSLP as a courtesy voluntarily prohibits the posting of critical or urtext edtions published less than 25 years ago, with the exception of those issued by government agencies or government-owned corporations" I don't quite know what category your book falls under, because I've never seen it. By the way, is it still in print? Kit _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
