Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2000/06

From: DGross1226@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Copyrights
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:42:36 -0400

In a message dated 00-06-03 16:16:08 EDT, Bill Wright wrote:

<< Thinking about copyrights is entirely new to me. When I go to a sheet
music store and purchase a songbook that includes the theme to Disney's
"Mermaid" film, what am I entitled to do with this music?>>

Listen to a recording of Dvorak's aria, "Song to the Moon," from his 1901
opera "Rusalka" to discover that movie soundtrack themes -- and main story
lines -- are frequently "borrowed." Of course it was Hans Christian Andersen
who inspired them both.

Don Gross
La Canada, California

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