Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 2005/02

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] composer's intentions
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:10:54 -0500

Adam Michlin wrote:

> Well, that was just what they *did* back then before mundane things
> like copyright laws existed.

Ahem. *The Statute of Anne (1710) was contemporaneous with J. S. Bach.
See http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne.html .

Also, some of the very first copyright court cases of the time involved
"borrowing" religious themes and music.
*

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