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Re: the francaix concerto

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2020-06-05 05:00

kdk wrote:

>
> Mark, if you publish the transposition for sale or even offer
> it gratis to other performers, I can easily see that it
> would be a copyright violation and sooner or later the
> copyright owner could find out. If you play the piece from the
> original but simply play it a half step lower (without a
> written transposition), would there be a violation? If you
> quietly put a written out transposed version on your music
> stand (a) who would know and, since you presumably own a legal,
> purchased copy (from which you've made the transposition) (b)
> how would the copyright owner be damaged by your using a
> written transposition? Isn't proving monetary damage part of a
> claim of copyright infringement?

There's no real legal nuance (other than "fair use") to copies of works not under the author's or author's estates when the work is under copyright ... that's why it's called "copyright" (there are many nuances for aural copyright - things that "sound like" another and then there's mechanical reproduction copyrights to boot) but making an unauthorized copy of the written work, even to make a page turn manageable, violates copyright. Stupidly, in my opinion.

But no one is coming after you. Not economically prudent. Unless you start giving the copies away or otherwise hurt the sales of the copyrighted work.

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