On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:31:35PM +0100, Tim Rowe wrote: > 2009/8/6 Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>: > > > 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. > > As I said originally, Elvis Presley's hit "Wooden Heart" is *already* > public domain.
I'm sorry. I read your earlier message much too quickly; looking at it in the archives, I see that I somehow managed to ignore everything apart from the first sentence. > It was a cover of a German folk song that goes back to > at least 1827. The English words are not public domain, but > (conveniently) Presley sang a verse of the German original which *is*. > So we could perfectly well obey copyright law by giving a couple of > bars of the German verse. "Muß i' denn, muß i' denn, zum Städtele > hinaus", Presley public-domainly sang. It would be different if we > were posting his recording or that arrangement, but the song itself > and the German lyric shouldn't be a copyright issue. Ok, you evidently know far more than me about this. Somebody else already offered to do the guitar/tablatureexample, but so could you create a "popular music" example? (to replace the "we needs words!" example) > It's a pre-1926 pop song (probably -- certainly pre-1930). Music Hall, > composer unknown. Probably best known for the verse "It's the same the > 'ole world over / ain't it just a bloomin' shame, / it's the rich what > gets the pleasure / it's the poor what gets the blame." Not at all known to me... but then again, even Michael (sp?) Jackson is before my time when it comes to pop. :) Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user