Klarinet Archive - Posting 000347.txt from 2006/08

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] "new" older clarinet music
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:30:47 -0400

The problem here is "no good deed goes unpunished" ... someone works
hard, does due diligence, tries to help out, does some real work, offers
up the work for free - and unfortunately, if he/she succeeds, someone,
somewhere, will put a stop to it with possible financial repercussions.

Bill Foss wrote:
> OK - He died in 1958.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 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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