On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Bernhard Lang wrote: > Obviously the former is bound to the edition and its > graphical outcome, while the latter is bound to the > content. The latter holds in Germany for 70 years or > so.
Your analysis is about right. Copyright is applicable to _all_ creative output, be it composing, arranging, editing or typesetting. According to international copyright law, a work remains copyrighted until the longest living copyright holder (be it the composer, the editor, etc.) has been dead for 70 years. So if the composer has been dead for 70 years, and you have access to the compostition in it's original, unedited form, nobody can stop you from publishing it if you do the typesetting yourself. > On the other hand, if you want to redistribute a > scanned old source which is to be found in a certain > library, you may have to pay fees to this library, > because it may have rights on the "graphical part". Fortunately not true. The library may require you to pay all kinds of "administration charges" for the "services" that they provide to you. But there is no legal basis for them to claim copyright on the manuscripts or printed works in their possesion. So if you make clandestine copies of a library ms. (e.g. with a digital camera hidden in your mobile phone) and you publish them, they cannot stop you, although they probably won't let you in the next time... Even if you publish a copyrighted work, as long as you do not ask any money for it, the worst thing that could happen to you is in general that you receive a letter from a lawyer, asking you to remove the work from your website as soon as possible. Publishers have no interest to start an expensive lawsuit against you, if they cannot earn a significant amount of money with it. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
