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Re: Baermann's "Complete Method for Clarinet"

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-06-28 03:31

Bennett wrote:

> Later reprints/editions might also have or once had piano parts
> that are still in copyright, even if out of print.

I am not a lawyer, and in particualr not a copyright lawyer, but AFAIK, reprints and editions that don't substantially change the musical content do not have copyright protection separate from the original publication. If someone composed new accompaniments or new reductions of orchestral accompaniments since 1927 (or whatever the date now is), those are protected. If all Harry Bettoney did in 1938 (which is the edition of which mine is a later reprint) was correct wrong notes (there are still tons of them) and add breath marks and articulations, again as far as I understand the U.S. copyright law, that can't be protected whether there's a copyright notice on the publication page or not, even if he had included accompaniments from earlier editions. It's still Baermann's music and Bettoney's corrections and additions to the extent he made them were meant to clarify the original 1860s edition.

So, I'm not sure why IMSLP marks the 1938 edition as non-PD U.S. except out of an abundance of caution solely because of the publication date. I think at one point they were nearly shut down over copyright violations.

I'd still like one day to find copies of the original works the etudes were excerpted from. It would be fun to see how the excerpts he chose for the method book actually fit together and what was left out.

Karl

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