Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 1999/03

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: European copyright
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 02:42:08 -0500

on 3/1/99 7:58 AM, David Blumberg wrote:

>What? They haven't? That's good news. I thought that copyright law was
>international. So how does that work? What about those $50 french editions
>of various 4-6 page pieces? Are they extended or not?

This puzzles me, too. Our orchestra scuffled to buy parts to various
Ravel and Debussy works that had gone out of copyright before this new
law went into effect, which was January 1, 1999, as I understood it.
These works had previously only been available on rental, and for a brief
time had been coming from Kalmus and/or a British publisher, something
like MusicMasters. What's the story here, anyone?

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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