Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 2008/06

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Subj: RE: [kl] Copyright Law (Again) - was Mutopia project and Cavallini
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:10:28 -0400

Also, what is the copyright term of an edition of a musical work that is
itself in the public domain? (70 years after the death of the editor?)

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:14 -0400, Karl Krelove wrote:
> Thanks, Mark. The Cornell URL is very helpful, of course - it seems (to an
> unpracticed eye) very complete. But there are still important areas that
> seem a little daunting or at least puzzling: who owns the rights to
> "Unpublished anonymous and pseudonymous works?" (whose permission would be
> needed to re-print such a work?); how would you find out if a
> foreign-published work "is not [or is] in the public domain in its home
> country?"

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