Klarinet Archive - Posting 000269.txt from 2010/06

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:50:26 -0400

Of course you can make your own arrangement or edit your own edition and
sell it (look at the countless versions of the Mozart clarinet
concerto). But the underlying music cannot be copyrighted any longer and
you can do anything with it you want.

Gary
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Michelle Guajardo wrote:
> Is music from the Public Domain necessarily free, or is it just free to
> share?
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com> wrote:
>
>> If everything were free, we would only have the efforts of amateurs. Of
>> course, there is a huge amount of music in the public domain, everything
>> (in the US at least) published before 1923. So those who want free music
>> should be able to find plenty of it.
>>
>> Gary
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