Hi, all, I'm new to the forum, but have been around lutes long enough to remember FoMRHI in the original. I just wanted to direct people to the Jean-Francois Delcamp guitar forum site for their useful discussion of copyright and file sharing: http://www.delcamp.net/forum/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3. In that vein, does anyone have a legal copy of the "Chacogne" from Herbert of Cherbury's lutebook they could get for me? I don't really want the whole book, but I was listening to Paul O'Dette's CD and it really caught my ear. Best, and looking forward to some good discussions, Chris.
>>> Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/20/2007 5:24 am >>> Martyn Hodgson wrote: > > Following recent communications which mentioned FoMRHI, I contacted Eph > Segerman and include the relevant part of his reply below. > > In short, anything in FoMRHI not specifcally restricted as detailed below > seems to be able to be freely reproduced and circulated. > > MH > > > Ephraim Segerman wrote: > Subject: Re: Fwd: FoMRHI > From: Ephraim Segerman > To: Martyn Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:36:22 +0000 > > > All one needs to copyright something that is written is to print the > symbol of a C inside a circle. A few contributors to FoMRHI have > retained their copyright by doing this, but the vast majority have not. > FoMRHI has never claimed copyright on anything it published. So, except > for the few copyrighted Comms, all FoMRHI stuff can be duplicated and > circulated. > > There is now a movement to revive FoMRHI, which involves action by the > Fellows. > > Yours, > > Eph > > > I'm note sure Eph is right here. See: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/protect/protect-should/protect-should-copy.htm As I understand it, copyright (in UK) is yours just if you've written (or created) something original. Putting a C inside a circle just makes things a bit clearer - but still, if you've written something original, you have copyright (in UK anyway). FoMRHI was a bizarre thing - very eccentric. It sort of anticipated the free flow of the Internet. The only criteria for inclusion were considerations of ease of photocopying/printing. So there could well be a certain amount of crank fodder. I remember some very strange contributions - for example at one time, somebody kept going on and on about Russian number symbolism or something. On the other hand, if read in sequence there were corrective replies to overly speculative ideas. Eph once wrote an ingenious piece on medieval lute construction without glue - just little wedges for joints. this was on the assumption that glues didn't exist in those times. In the next edition, someone pointed out that glues did exist then and Eph withdrew his conjecture. > > --------------------------------- > For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month. > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >
