Carl Peterson <carlopeter...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:42 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> Shane Brandes <sh...@grayskies.net> writes: >> >> > The U.S. has the concept of fair use see 17 U.S.C. § 107 >> >> But we want LilyPond to be distributable in more than just the U.S.A. >> > > Indeed. I am not a legal expert by any stretch (I've just read a lot of > stuff on copyright law, between this project and some other related > interests of mine). In particular, I would say that anything used should be > incontrovertibly in the public domain (i.e., the older, the better).
There is not such thing as "incontrovertibly in the public domain" as various governments are shifting the goal posts around retroactively. It is a perversion of the idea of copyright as a means of encouraging the creation of works when copyright extensions are granted after the death of the author since no extension can make him possibly work harder on creating new works for the sake of his heirs after he is already dead. So any extension announced after the death of an author should not apply to the works of an author who labored under different assumptions when creating the work. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user