Klarinet Archive - Posting 000571.txt from 2002/03

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] photocopies of rental parts
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:50:35 -0500

on 3/14/2002 8:08 AM, David Hattner wrote:

>Then you have to get illegal copies of all the rental stuff and
>also all the recently withdrawn stuff like Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
>
I know Mark will correct me if I'm wrong ;-) but my understanding is
that one photocopy for personal use/study which is less than the whole
work (one part out of many in this case) is not illegal.

What is also interesting is that orchestras who bought up as many of
those Russian orchestral works, and Ravel, Debussy etc, for the brief
time that they were in the public domain now seem to "own" them, and have
no difficulties with using them. Interesting.

>Your last result will be scores, a small percentage of which are not
>transposed.

Given the easy availability of computer programs like Finale, this should
now be less of a problem.

Sorry to chime in so late.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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