At 6:29 AM 07/02/02, Michael Edwards wrote: > I have heard that if Handel were alive today he'd quite likely be in jail >for copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement (in the United States, at least) is a civil offense, not a criminal one. So he wouldn't end up in jail; rather, the court would require him to pay damages to others who sue him. > To counter this, here is a story I once read about Rossini. Another >composer (one version of the story says it was Meyerbeer) came to Rossini with >some of his recent music, and asked Rossini to give an opinion of it. > Rossini said something along the lines of: "This music is both great and >original. However, the parts that are great are not original, and the parts >that are original are not great." That line is usually attributed to Samuel Johnson. (But the writer at <http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#3> suggests that Johnson never said it either.) mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
