Klarinet Archive - Posting 000206.txt from 2001/09

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: rental parts' misprints
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:28:58 -0400

<><> Then why place the word "copyright" and the copyright symbol
on the work? The word and symbol _do_ assert a copyright.

Yes, but that isn't what I was talking about. Perhaps I didn't express
myself clearly.

What I meant was that the purpose of including _an intentional error_ is
not to
create or assert the existence of a copyright. For example, an error
doesn't address the question of how many changes are required before the
music becomes unique. Is K.622 a new piece of music if I raise one
note by an octave? Probably not, but this is a legal question that I
am not attempting to discuss.

The copied error shows only that copying was done and from whom it was
copied. Including the copyright notice in a copy would prove the same
thing, but (so the logic goes) the culprit is likely to blank out the
copyright notice. The hope is that the culprit won't notice that a
certain note in measure 347 is printed a third lower or has a fermata
above it.

I believe that map publishers do the same thing.... add an extra alley
that isn't really there, or misspell "Tomas" instead of "Thomas", etc.

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