John Howell wrote:
I am curious whether the E.U. has regularized differences in copyright law among its various countries, or whether that was already accomplished through Berne, etc.
I think it was supposed to, but has not completely succeeded. For example, while Germany, and I presume, France, appears (based upon Johannes statements) to treat typographical copyrights the same as the copyright to the composition, the UK at present does not; a typographical copyright in the UK is twenty five years, instead of the duration of seventy years after the death of the composer. Thus, all of C. V. Stanford's work is in the public domain, but OUP, which produced a volume of a collection of choral works a couple of years ago, entitled "Weddings for Choirs" or some such, which contained a re-engraving of Stanford's Op. 38 #3, "Beati quorum via", claims copyright on the typography of that work in that volume, based upon the re-engraving. One may re-engrave the work oneself, even using the OUP edition as a basis, one may not, however (at least in the EU, where the copyright has meaning), simply photocopy the edition.
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