Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 24.03.2007 dc wrote:
"As per Article 70 of the German Urheberrechtsgesetz (copyright law),
scientific editions, which is to say editions which are produced as a
result of scientific analysis (i.e. critical editions and urtext),
have a copyright length of only publication + 25 years, meaning that
all scientific editions published before 1982 is in the public domain
in Germany, and also in Canada via the Rule of the Shorter Term. This
would mean a lot (if not all) of Barenreiter's pre-1982 publications."
I believe this is more complicated than it looks. There is this
Urheberrecht for the "scientific", ie critical edition, but the edition
itself is still under the normal copyright. You may use the text, but
not the page.
I am no expert on this though.
Johannes
I had forgotten that under German (and other countries') copyright laws
the appearance on the page is protected by copyright, given the normal
copyright term.
So while the actual editing of the music may not be copyrighted after 25
years, the appearance on the page IS copyrighted for the normal term
(life plus 70), so that posting of PDF files of the Barenreiter edition
would be violation of the copyright while posting of Finale files made
from the Barenreiter edition would not be a violation.
So those files on that web-site may well be in violation of copyright.
--
David H. Bailey
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