Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:23:33 -0400

At 12:31 PM 7/11/2010, you wrote:
>On 07/10/2010 07:34 PM, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> > Interesting, but not really on point. The Stationers' Guild
> > copyright plan had nothing to do with censorship. That was a
> > corruption of the plan overlaid by the English authorities
>
>The Royal Charter granted the Stationers' Company in 1557 is arguably
>the first copyright law. Here are the opening sentences:
>
> The king and queen to all whom etc. greeting. Know ye that we,
> considering and manifestly perceiving that certain seditious and
> heretical books rhymes and treatises are daily published and
> printed by divers scandalous malicious schismatical and heretical
> persons, not only moving our subjects and lieges to sedition and
> disobedience against us, our crown and dignity, but also to renew
> and move very great and detestable heresies against the faith and
> sound catholic doctrine of Holy Mother Church, and wishing to
> provide a suitable remedy in this behalf ...
>
>Sounds like censorship to me. :-)

Yes, imposed upon the Stationers' Guild by the government. But long
since removed.

>By the way, the Stationers also defended their exclusive right to print
>as a right quite equivalent to property, and when faced with other
>organizations being granted royal sanction to print, described this
>explicitly in terms of theft.

Which is exactly the point I am arguing. They saw copyright as
property from the beginning. You just torpedoed your own argument.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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