Richard Robinson writes: | On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:31:54PM +0000, John Chambers wrote: | > Richard Robinson writes: | > | I've been forced to use this for %%Copyright, which is a thing that's | > | important to keep track of, which ordinary ABC can't handle. | > | > There is a minor problem with the lack of a standard place to put | > this information, and it would be nice to standardize that. But | > copyright law doesn't have such a requirement, just that you put the | > notice in a prominent place. Publications do put copyright | > information all over the place. And there is even a reasonable | > argument against standardizing it in one place. As the above line | > illustrates, when the composer holds the copyright, it's obvious that | > the best place is in the C header line. If the copyright is held by | > someone else, then it's just as obvious that the C line should not | > contain the copyright notice. | | Yes, that was why I felt I needed a particular place to put just that | info, and know that that was what it was. I had cases where the maker | was the copyright holder, cases where the 2 were different, and a lot of | Swedish/Norwegian "efter"s, which also seemed to want to be in C: - | and I didn't really want "efter Pers Hans Olsson" displayed in the same | way as "Copyright XYZ Music Inc."
I've long thought that we really should have a well-defined place in abc for the copyright info. I also think that the best would be: Copyright: \251 1998 Joe Smith ... The ... would be the usual phrases that you see in such notices. I'd also suggest that we strongly encourage a URL or email address in the ... portion, so that people can easily find the owner and ask for permission to use the music. We could pick one of the unused single-letter headers, if we don't want to make the jump to full-word headers. Of course, the best would be just: ©: 1998 Joe Smith ... But some people might have problems figuring out how to type this. On many linux and *BSD systems, you can get the copyright symbol with the ALT-) (or ALT-SHIFT-0) combination, but I don't think this will work on Windoze or Mac systems. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
