Mike Blackstock <[email protected]> wrote: >This paper might be of interest to anyone typesetting public domain >music from so-called copyrighted scores: >http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244
Excellent article, even if it is 7 years old. I'm in a singing group. We sing madrigals and some baroque pieces, all several hundred years old. I see books all the time with copyright notices all over the place on songs that were written 300 to 500 years ago. I wonder just what is under copyright? Words and music certainly are not. Any foreword, biographical material, commentary certainly is. If the editor went to an old source, transcribed the piece into more modern notation, added measures, key signature, time signature, does that make the product copyrightable? If I make a copy with Lilypond, is that infringement? Since I've produced sheet music for a public domain work, I don't think so. -- Tim Slattery [email protected] _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
