Two excellent resources for copyright owner determination are the databases of the performance rights organizations, ASCAP and BMI. Of course, if the composer or publisher never registered the song with either of those, you won't find it there, but most songs are registered with one or the other.
ASCAP's is <http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?mode=search> and BMI's is <http://repertoire.bmi.com/startpage.asp> It can be a little puzzling if the title of the song you're looking for isa common one, i.e. there are more thn one song by that title, but if you know whonthe composer is you can narrow it down that way. Richard Huggins > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is sometimes difficult to find out who the copyright owner is. > > I wanted to make an arrangement of some copyright music (for a different type > of ensemble from the original, but was unable to find an address to which to > write to get permission. (The copy of the music I had was an arrangement but > did not have details of the original copyright owner.) > > Is there a resource either in paper or on the web which might help in this > respect? > > All the best, > > Lawrence _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
