Klarinet Archive - Posting 000126.txt from 1998/04

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Copyright
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 18:02:13 -0500

There is a facsimile of the original that has been published however, and
anyone can make an edition based on it.

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Kevin Fay wrote:

> You all need to be very careful here. Mozart is dead--all of his works
> are in the public domain. Feel free to copy them (by hand).
>
> The copyright for the actual printed copy you are looking at, however,
> can be very much alive. Every copy of K. 622 that I have ever seend has
> been edited, usually by some famous name or other. The publishing
> company holds the copyright to that edition--it is very unlikely to be
> in the public domain.
>
> kjf
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 17:05:26 -0500
> From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Copyright
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
>
> bert.six@-----.edu wrote:
> > There wouldn't be any problem here, because when you talk
> intergalactic,
> > you talk of long light years. And remember that when a copyright
> holder
> > is dead for over 50 years, the copyright expires.
>
> Ah - but if the copyright holder is travelling at close
> to the speed of light then the copyright holder will
> be alive in our time-space for a _very_ long time.
>
> Anyway, the 50 year term is only for works created after
> January 1, 1978. The law:
>
> Duration of Copyright
>
> Works created after January 1, 1978 will be protected for
> the life of the composer (author) plus 50 years. Copyrights
> in effect on that date, if renewed, will continue for 75
> years from the date copyright was originally secured.
>
> Those works in their initial 28-year period of copyright on
> January 1, 1978 can be renewed for an additional 47
> years, while the copyright of works in their renewal term
> on that date were automatically extended for an
> additional 19 years.
>
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