Klarinet Archive - Posting 000288.txt from 2001/09

From: "emily worthington" <emily.worthington@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: rental parts' misprints
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:51:30 -0400

> 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.

Apparently OS maps often include 'a stylised flourish at the end of a road'
for this purpose. As Angus Deaton remarked when this was brought up on Have
I Got News For You, it must be just one long anarchic party in their
offices! Randomly transposed bars sounds much more fun - just think, if it
was on Picc you wouldn't be able to tell anyway ;-)
Em
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: rental parts' misprints

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

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