On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:30 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Graham Percival <[email protected]> writes: > >> In my non-expert (I am not a lawyer) opinion, the current except on >> the German page would contravene Canadian copyright law. > > It depends on whether the quote makes sense for working with/from. Not > every attributed quote is illegal.
I'm specifically thinking of "alternatives to the dealing", stemming from the 2004 CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada supreme court case. Stockhausen is not the only composer to use cross-staff beams or the like, so there are plenty of non-copyrighted works which could be used instead. > The amount to which the media industry considers their customers enemies > who must not be allowed to make _any_ sensible use of their purchases is > really absurd. Oh, I agree -- I would even go so far as to call that behaviour immoral. And I definitely think that copyright laws should be changed, and I optimistically think that they /will/ change over the next 10-30 years. But that doesn't change the actual current legal standing of various (entirely reasonable) actions under current legislation and judicial precedence. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
