>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Fardal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 3. In some countries, the same applies for editions. This could >> be relevant to the Bach example. If a modern person has edited the >> music, then they hold the copyright on the edition. This does not >> stop you from removing the editorial features - remove all >> editorial slurs, phrasemarks, ornaments etc and only leave those >> that you know to be original. You can then add some of your own if >> you want to be your own editor. Mark> Interesting. This brings up more questions: Mark> Can you copyright an Urtext, an edition that (supposedly) Mark> reproduces what the composer originally wrote? Yes. But the copyright covers only what's original in the edition: the typesetting, and any editorial work done to determine exactly what the composer wrote. Mark> How is anyone to know what is original and what is editorial? Mark> Access to a facsimile, Urtext, or multiple editions could help, Mark> but in many cases none of those options are available. That's the editorial work that goes into producing an utext -- it's that work that enables you to copyright the result. Peter C
