On 24.03.2007 dhbailey wrote:
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.
The reason for this is that it would otherwise be impossible to copyright something which you claim to be the "Urtext", since that's supposed to be what the composer meant 300 years ago. That as such is not copyrightable. To protect investments into Urtext editions this law was introduced. It is perhaps the reason that so many Gesamtausgaben are in fact based in Germany.
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