Klarinet Archive - Posting 000942.txt from 1999/11

From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Yet Even More Copyright Pointyheadedness
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:09:34 -0500

Mark wrote:

> Case in point - the Saint-Saens Sonata, op. 167, ... <snip>

> As far as I can tell, this is no longer in copyright. Am I wrong?

If the 1921 copyright were in the USA, it would be Public Domain. With the
original copyright being in France, you will need to either (1) research
French Copyright yourself, (2) Hire an attorney to do it for you, or (3)
write to Durand and ask them. The last is the easiest, and it isn't likely
that they will lie to you. On several occasions I've written to publishers
for copyright clearance, only to have their "Copyrights & Permissions"
departments respond by telling me that no permission was necessary as the
edition in question had passed into Public Domain.

(Durand -- aren't they the French publisher that prints stuff on pithy,
newsprint-quality paper and then binds their volumes in such a way that
they disintegrate at the touch of a human hand? I guess you better not ask
them that in the same letter ..... )

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA

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