Klarinet Archive - Posting 000943.txt from 1999/11

From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Asking for Help from the list
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:14:22 -0500

Mark asks:

> The determination of what a COPY is - is the problem, especially when the
notes are in the public domain. If someone publishes the Urtext of a piece
published before 1927, and I copy the notes from it - am I violating a
copyright somewhere? <

I dunno. Depends on the piece, the country of the original copyright, and
in some cases the date of death of the composer.

There's a Vaughn Williams piece that I'd love to arrange. It was
copyrighted in England in 1919. If that were an American copyright, the
piece would be in the public domain. But in England, copyrights of that
era extend 50 years (or is it 75 years?) after the composer's death -- and
Vaughn Williams died in the 1950's. I have to wait.

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA

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