Klarinet Archive - Posting 000528.txt from 2001/06

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Copyright
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:31:38 -0400

The term of copyrights in the US is not 75 years; see http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/copyright/ for a very lucent chart, including some of the more intricate variations.

Oliver,
Exclusive permission to produce and print religious music predates the Queen Anne statute by quite a few years. I'll get the references this evening from my history of music printing reference. The statute of Queen Anne pertained to publishing in general.

All music that has been produced before 1923 and published in the US is not longer covered by copyright. Music derived from these sources are also not covered by copyright. Editorial footnotes created 1923 or later may be. Minor editorial changes, especially those that make corrections making the music conform to an earlier edition or manuscript, are not covered by any new copyright. New arrangements of the music are covered by copyright.

So, in the US, is a version ofthe clarinet part of K.622 covered by copyright? Probably not. Is a piano accompaniment covered? Very possibly - it depends when it was produced and whether or not it is predominately based on an accompaniment published prior to 1923.

Publishers very often try to browbeat us into thinking that something _isn't_ in the public domain when it most certainly _is_. See http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Misc/46DLJ241.html for an excellent article from the Duke Law JournalC on this matter.

Mark C.

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