Klarinet Archive - Posting 000215.txt from 2000/07

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] von Weber Concertos 1 & 2 -Reply
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:55:45 -0400

At 05:55 PM 07/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>No - I've been in personal and public communication with a number of
>copyright lawyers about this. Putting a copyright notice on a piece of
>music, even edited, does not make it copyrighted. There's a significant
>amount of work needed to make an edition copyrightable - adding dynamics and
>correcting notes does not a new copyrightable edition make. At least
>according to 6 or 7 lawyers on the cni-copyright list, with no dissenting
>opinions from the 2 or 3 hundred lawyers who frequent that group - almost
>unheard of on that list.

What do they say about an arrangment of such a work for another medium?

RG

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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