Klarinet Archive - Posting 000297.txt from 2000/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Original scores for festival judges.
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 07:23:47 -0400

Oliver wrote:

>Here's another good one for the Holy Bible:
>Old Testament Sections, Copyright 1952, by Division of Christian Education
>of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of
>America. New Testament Sections, Copyright 1946, by etc.

and

>There is method to my madness on at least two levels in the statement
>Copyright ©2000 by Oliver Seely and assigned to the public domain.

Until the Feist Publications vs. Rural Telephone Services case in the US
Supreme court, "sweat of the brow" works were presumed to be copyrightable,
thus the copyrights on the bible and lots of PD music - presentation &
editing were held to be the copyrightable elements. Feist changed the whole
copyright arena when it comes to the publishing of facts (and PD works).
Facts aren't copyrightable in the US, but a novel or unique way of
presenting them is (or can be). Editing and typography are not considered
novel or unique.

Mark C.

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