Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms headaches....

2006-07-21 Thread dhbailey
Martin Banner wrote: Go to www.hinshawmusic.com There's a brand new book on this subject written by Rob Monath, entitled By The Book. Thanks for the link -- have you read the book? $14 for a 77-page book seems like a pretty steep price for not a lot of book! I'd love to know if anybody

Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms headaches....

2006-07-21 Thread dhbailey
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: *Andrew Stiller* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...but eventually I figured out that there was a don't ask, don't tell system in operation: you call up a microfilm from the stacks, don't tell anybody you're going to copy it, then

Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms headaches....

2006-07-21 Thread John Howell
Title: Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms head At 11:01 PM -0400 7/20/06, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: On 7/20/06, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saur can copyright the images themselves -- not their content, which can be copied out by hand or transcribed by an OCR

Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms headaches....

2006-07-21 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
But that's exactly what leaves me confused. Why exactly are their copies of the original, whether photographs, scans, or whatever, copyrightable when there is exactly zero added intellectual content? -- I think (and this is pure conjecture), the photographs themselves are copyrighted. It'd

Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms headaches....

2006-07-21 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:44 AM 7/21/06 -0400, John Howell wrote: I think Dennis mean copying from the original, not a facsimile of the original. No, copying content from the 'facsimile' is what I meant. Copyright subsists in the photograph itself, which is not truly a facsimile... Why exactly are their copies of

Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms headaches....

2006-07-21 Thread John Howell
At 6:41 AM -0400 7/21/06, dhbailey wrote: I'd love to know if anybody has read this book and can give us a review slanted to those of us in the engraving/publishing field as well as to performers to know if it's really valuable information or simply rehashing the same details we go over on

[Finale] Request for font info

2006-07-21 Thread John Howell
A couple of folks on the 18th-century list posed these questions. I assume that they are looking for fonts to use in text, not in a notation program. I'll be happy to pass on your replies, but please make them simple; when it comes to the inner workings of computers, I'm a Bear of Little

[Finale] Can't open file

2006-07-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
I have been updating a piece from FinMac 3.5 to 2K4, and have run into a problem. The piece is a song cycle in which each song is in a different file. I had noticed that all the files open rather sluggishly: it takes a second or two for the notes to appear after the staff does. This one file,

Re: [Finale] Chord Question Again :)

2006-07-21 Thread Jacki Barineau
Thanks so much for the explanation and response! - Jacki On Jul 19, 2006, at 5:32 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Jacki Barineau / 2006/07/19 / 05:14 PM wrote: Later on, the same chord is used that does include a G... Does this change things?! :) Yes, very much. The reason why 6/9 chord is

Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms

2006-07-21 Thread Rafael Ornes
First and foremost, I am not a lawyer (IANAL). Secondly, it might be useful in discussing legal opinions to cite relevant case law. The most important case for US copyright law is 'Feist v. Rural', which was decided by the Supreme Court, and held that a minimum level of creativity was required

Re: [Finale] OT : Research and Copyrighted Microforms

2006-07-21 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:34 PM 7/21/06 -0700, Rafael Ornes wrote: http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/corel2.html This case applies to photographs as reproductions. Do we know how much of the Saur is simple reproduction vs. an enhanced and/or three-dimensional photograph? Knowing nothing about them, I perhaps