Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2008/06
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Copyright Law (Again) - was Mutopia project and Cavallini Caprices
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:22:20 -0400
I'm confused again (as usual when copyright laws are the subject). Did the
U.S. recognize international copyrights as part of G.A.T.T., which was
replaced in 1995 by the World Trade Organization? Are our own domestic
copyright laws (last revised in the 1970s?) still in effect for U.S.
publications, meaning that Bernstein's compositions are subject to a
different copyright expiration from those of, say, Holst or Sibelius? I was
recently told by a music vendor that a certain Soviet composer's work - not
one of the major ones that would immediately come to everyone's mind - might
not be available in this country because of G.A.T.T., although it turned out
the piece I was looking for was available in an apparently legal American
publication (by International Music Co.). Is it 75 years after the
composer's death or 50 (or 75) years after the work's original publication
date or is it different for every piece depending on where (and perhaps
when) it was published?
Thanks,
Karl
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From: Keith [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:02 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Fwd: Mutopia project and Cavallini Caprices
Exactly. The rules say 75 years after the death of the composer (with some
exceptions, normally making it longer) not after the copyright date.
Keith
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From: klarinet-return-93671-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-93671-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of Gary Van Cott
Sent: 24 June 2008 02:31
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: Mutopia project and Cavallini Caprices
You're guessing!
In the United States only music before 1923 is certain to be out of
copyright.
Gary
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David wrote:
> Nice job on the transcription.
>
> The Clarinet Institute ( www.clarinetinstitute.com ) also posts scanned
music. We have a large and growing library of public domain music for
clarinet in pdf format. It's all free. We would be happy to post any of
your transcriptions.
>
> If you have any clarinet music where the copyright date is more than 75
years old (let's see, that's about 1933)we encourage you to scan it and send
it in to the Clarinet Institute. That way, you can save that music from
disappearing from the clarinet repertoire.
>
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> --- On Mon, 6/23/08, Garrett Fitzgerald <sarekofvulcan@-----.com> wrote:
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>> From: Garrett Fitzgerald <sarekofvulcan@-----.com>
>> Subject: [kl] Fwd: Mutopia project and Cavallini Caprices
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 2:44 PM
>> Greetings, all. I recently transcribed the first of the
>> Cavallini
>> Caprices and sent it to the Mutopia project, an online
>> database of
>> public domain transcriptions using Lilypond files.
>> (Lilypond, at
>> http://www.lilypond.org, is an open-source music
>> typesetting program.)
>> I was just notified that it's been posted to
>> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1463.
>> If anyone
>> sees any errors I missed, please let me know. I'll
>> continue
>> transcribing the other Caprices over the next few months.
>>
>> Garrett Fitzgerald
>> Brewer, Maine
>> Proud band geek since '76
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