At the other side is a lawyer question. I think I can write for myself
as
much I like. But am I allowed to publish this work (pdf)? I don't plan
to
sell it. But would it legal to sell the pdf or printed paper?
Details will depend on the country you're living in, where IMA is
hosted (Danmark) etc. In general, copyright or author's right or
however it is called, forbids you basically doing anything without the
permission of the author/his(here) successor/the person(company) who
has the right to make money with the work. This ends 70 years
(according to european copyright regulations) after the author's death.
There's one exception, being, if you find a manuscript or something
similar which wasn't accessible to the public before, you'll have the
copyright/authors right/however it is called on it for 25 years after
publication.
That all boils down to: anything having been composed by someone who
died before 1935, resp. which has been accessible to the public before
1970 you can use freely as you want (as long as you don't reproduce it
graphically, that's another story, be aware also of reconstructions,
arrangements etc, these are subject to new copyright)
just to mention: I'm not a lawyer, all this is personal and cannot be
used in any... (but I've read the european regulations and german
copyright laws, at least)
hope that helps
Bernhard
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