Klarinet Archive - Posting 000911.txt from 1999/11

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: RE: [kl] Asking for Help from the list
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:14:54 -0500

Jim wrote:
>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.

Right. However, if I create my own, using the same fonts & typeface (since I paid the owner for rights to use those, too!) as you did, but did not photocopy yours (there would of course be some minor differences, but if we both used, let's say, Finale's defaults, they'd be pretty darn close), what happens? We both have virtually the same product - how would a copyright be defended?

It used to be that creating and correcting plates incurred a significant financial and artistic investment, but electronically created scores are relatively easy to produce, and two people conceiveably could come up with exact or almost exact products.

Mark C.

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