Klarinet Archive - Posting 000346.txt from 2006/08

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] "new" older clarinet music
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:22:47 -0400

OK - He died in 1958.

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From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] "new" older clarinet music

> Bill Foss wrote:
>> Also, Mark, the pieces are 50 years old and have no record or either
>> being copyrighted or published.
>
> You don't have "to copyright" something, you gain copyright
> automatically as a creator (although it may be worth registering that
> copyright in order to help protect it). If Kilford Neely wrote the
> pieces, the copyright belongs to him (or his estate), unless he did
> something to sign it away. The age of the piece is not relevant: it's
> the period of time since the composer's death that matters.
>
>
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