Re: Re: Copying music. A Crime?


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Posted by Chuck(G) on September 21, 2001 at 00:54:43:

In Reply to: Re: Copying music. A Crime? posted by Richard on September 20, 2001 at 23:22:12:

Richard, don't you have this reversed?

Any work in the public domain is, by definition, not protected by copyright and may be freely copied and performed without any payment of royalties or fees. So those Dover facsimilies of old scores in the public domain can be copied (except for any new material, such as the foreword or index).

But works NOT in the public domain are protected by copyright. Copying is restricted to a very narrow set of fair use guidelines (educational use per se is no longer a fair use). In fact, most publishers view charts as consumables, meaning that copying to avoid normal wear and tear is considered a violation of the copyright. Technically, any copying should be cleared with the publisher, but avoiding bad page tunrs because of some idiot in the typesetting department is probably viewed as benign.

This issue has been discussed at length on several lists. For more information, see the link below:



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