On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:31:17 +0200, Thomas Schall wrote > I guess this would count as performance and clearly is an > infringement of copyright law. IMHO copyright (in the US) has very > good intensions but it's a law that is hard to follow and is > contradictional to common sense and habits. I'm lucky not to live in > the US but in switzerland with a more liberal > (and practical) understanding of copyright. An arrangement as Tom > did would count as "fair use" > (http://www.copyright.ch/?sub_id=47&leng=0),
Even that's debatable. "Fair use" (which is not the term used in the swiss law) only applies to works you got from the copyright holder. So I you buy an edition/recording from the copyright holder you can create "fair use"-copies. You already paid for that use, so to speak. Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
