Klarinet Archive - Posting 000991.txt from 1999/11

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Asking for Help from the list
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 02:52:13 -0500

"Jim O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:14:22 -0800
Subject: RE: [kl] Asking for Help from the list 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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No Jim, you don't have to wait. Just send a letter to the publisher with
your idea, and ask them for permission. There usually is a cost involved (%
of sales, or a fee, etc.), but it can, and has been done. I'm doing it for
my Clarinet Accompaniments. I had to do it for my Christmas Accomp. CD, and
now the publisher Pressers has it on their register in the front of the store.
1922 and before are the dates for US. and Faure can't be sold in France,
and Belgium as public domain (I got that from the President of Pressers
Publishing).

David Blumberg
music@-----.com
http://www.mytempo.com
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