At 01:23 PM 8/13/2005, Arthur wrote: > To catch modern day pirates Ophee changes a few notes in his editions of public domain >music, so that when someone else publishes the same pieces with his alterations he can >charge them with copyright infringement. Of course one can go back to the original public >domain piece and publish that, and there is nothing that Ophee can do about it.
Which is why I provide the full information on the source used in the edition itself. Right? It does not take long for you to grab on a word expressed by a poster to try to change the subject. The issue is not pirating but your claim that you found the R&BS copy of Schulz' Recollections of Ireland Op. 41, when in point of fact you knew about it for more than 8 years by now since I gave you all the information about it. > He only has copyright on the edition he publishes, such as "Recollections of Ireland" with >all those mistakes. Anyone can use and even publish the same piece by downloading the >pubic domain copy from the Royal Library in Copenhagen, thanks to Coldwell. Anyone >can correct all the mistakes in that manuscript, and publish it and obtain their own copyright >protection. Is there an echo in here? >(Just don't copy from Ophee, or he will get you.) Damn right I will. Last fellow who did that, one Vladimir Mikulka, learned the hard way that when I provide the full information about the source I used for my edition, it is much better and cheaper to go back to the original and do his own edition, completely independent of my work. Mikulka's edition of Bobrowicz' Variations on La Ci Darem La Mano was removed from circulation by its publisher, Lemoine, when I proved that it was a rip off of my edition of the same. That was back in 1992, and since then, people have learned to leave my editions alone. So far, no one had attempted the Mikulka caper. There is no need to. There is so much PD music available, (only I happen to have published some of the best stuff first...) > From what he is harping on in this thread seems to suggest he thinks he has some > exclusive rights to the piece. He doesn't. That's bullshit. Of course I do not have any rights to the piece. But I do have an inalienable right to the fact that I published this pieces in 1984, posted it on line in 1997, and there is no way in Hell you can come now and pretend to have just found it. > And I was under no obligation to refer to his faulty edition, since the piece is readily > available from Copenhagen, without Ophee's heavy-handed mis-editing. My editing methodology, and all the decisions I made, are readily available for study on line by anyone. You do not state clearly what are your objections and expect readers to take you at your words. Needless to say, sycophants such as Roman Turovsky take at your words even before you pronounced them. I do not. I am not aware of any published music for the guitar under your editorship, ever making itself known. None. You have never edited guitar music, you do not even play the guitar and never did, and as a matter of fact, you do not even play the lute. As for editing lute music, let's see... the last time you published anything in this field was when? Oh, I get it. 1970. 35 years ago. As far as I can tell, you are very good at making lists of things, but you are simply unqualified to express an opinion on editing guitar music. Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 Phone: 614-846-9517 Fax: 614-846-9794 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orphee.com http://www.livejournal.com/users/matanya/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
