Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 2009/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Fair Use
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:41:58 -0500

Pennsylvania MEA and our local Bucks County MEA require specific editions in
order to try to eliminate differences in the script that auditioning
students are playing from. The editions are in print and generally still
under copyright, and students are *required* to bring an original, published
copy to the audition with them.

By contrast, the choral divisions of these organizations often use
selections available as downloads from the Choral Public Domain Library
(CPDL) website, often either linking the PMEA and BCMEA websites to the CPDL
selection or linking to a copy that's been downloaded to the organization's
local sever. (Choral conductors often, in fact, use CPDL as a source for
major portions of their programs in the PMEA and BCMEA festivals, offsetting
the really frightening cost of 100 copies of a single choral selection at
retail prices).

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Seely [mailto:oseely@-----.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:38 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fair Use
>
> Bruce's posting reminds me of a problem brought up on this list
> several years ago about the possibility, today with Finale and
> Sibelius, that a student would show up for a competition with his/her
> own sequenced and printed version of a work long in the public domain
> or which would be submitted to the panel before the event.
>
> Is this allowed yet? Comments, anyone?
>
> Oliver
>

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