On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:10:21PM +0100, Tim Rowe wrote: > 2009/8/4 Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>: > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Tim Rowe wrote: > >> A pop example presents obvious copyright issues. > > > > No; an *existing* commercial pop example has copyright issues. > > Using a copyleft pop song would be fine as long as we include the > > copyleft license issues (attribution, etc). Inventing a new pop > > song sidesteps all the above. > > True, but we haven't invented new copyright pieces for classical, > Gregorian chant, etc.
Those aren't covered by copyright. > I would have thought it better to have a > recognisable pop song on the web site if we can. Elvis Presley might > not exactly be current, but he was certainly popular! I don't think that any of his songs would become available until 2050 or so -- assuming the big media companies don't extend copyright again in a few years. > Or we could go back to earlier pop: "She was poor but she was honest..." ;-) If that's a reference to my "let's obey copyright law, even if we have poorer examples", then yes. If that's a reference to a pre-1926 pop song, then it obviously went over my head. :) Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user