Klarinet Archive - Posting 000906.txt from 1999/11

From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Asking for Help from the list
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:36:56 -0500

Mark wrote:

> It's considerably more complex than meets
> the eye, since by the very process of editing
> a piece a copyright may be claimed; I'm not
> sure. Then - separating the editing out of the
> notes - becomes problematic. What is in the
> public domain, and what isn't?

If I publish a new edition of -- say -- "The Widget" for unaccompanied
clarinet by Mozart, the music itself is in the public domain. But even if
I don't change a note or any other markings, my edition -- with my
engraving typeface, my choice of fonts for the title, my decisions on the
number of measures on each staff, the number of staves on each page, the
spacing of individual notes and the location of page turns -- my edition is
still copyrightable. If you want to make legal photocopies of a
copyrighted printed edition, you still need to get the necessary permission
or else wait until the copyright expires and the edition enters the Public
Domain.

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA

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