Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2009/04

From: Michael Nichols <mrn.clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Orchestra parts Errata - "The reprint rumor letter"
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:15:01 -0400

There's really no need to do that sort of thing with music, because
works of music are, by definition, creative expression (which is what
copyright protects--copyright doesn't protect facts). Maps, on the
other hand, necessarily tend to lack this creative aspect (there's
only one correct place to draw a road, for instance). Inserting
mistakes on maps not only makes copyright infringement easier to
detect, it ensures that the map contains something that can actually
be protected by copyright.

Music doesn't have this problem because works of music are, by their
very nature, creative works. It's not necessary to add "mistakes" to
music, because if it's subject to copyright at all, either the piece
as a whole is copyrighted or, as in the case of a copyrighted edition
of a public domain work, the editorial changes are protected (and
those can be just as easily identified as intentional misprints would
be).

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:47 AM, John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com> wrote:
> Whatever the truth about music, it's certainly true that map makers
> put in deliberate errors to prove unauthorised copying.

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