(Sorry, I'm late joining this discussion - christmas vacation, you know.)
Jeff Szuhay wrote:
...
The rule of thumb for printed music is that the copyright lasts for 50
years after
the composer's death.
70 years, actually.
Some international council (can't be bothered to remember its name)
Karl Dallas writes:
| I didn't realise I was that easy to find! :-) I was startled to read in
| one newsgroup a couple of years ago that I was dead! But that rumour's
| been much exaggerated [(c) Samuel Clemens]!
...
Jack Campin wrote:
| Ursula Le Guin came up with a far-ahead-of-her-time idea in "
02 5:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [abcusers] music copyrights
> One of the problems still to be solved is the instability of email
> addresses. If someone has your tune and 10 years from now wants to
> contact you about it, will the email address work? Probably not, if
> it&
> One of the problems still to be solved is the instability of email
> addresses. If someone has your tune and 10 years from now wants to
> contact you about it, will the email address work? Probably not, if
> it's through a commercial ISP.
Karl Dallas and I share an inestimable advantage for th
Karl Dallas writes:
| As an interesting sidelight, I use ABC primarily as a composition tool
| on my Palm-compatible Treo PDA. If I were to distribute my tunes in ABC
| format, anyone transcribing them into conventional staff notation might
| well have a right in law to claim copyright. So I better
>That's really exciting. Any idea when we can begin to see Bronson in ABC
>format?
There are some songs available for download already. Just a zip file
containing about 80 abcs at the moment. Lots more to come, and lots
of issues to settle about format etc.
Read the discussion on the forum for
Phil Taylor wrote:
> FWIW, I got to that site via a link from Princeton University Press's
site,
> while looking for information on the copyright status of Bronson's
> Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. (It's out of press, but still
> copyright. There's a re-publication planned in a couple
bject: Re: [abcusers] music copyrights
Bill Taffe wrote:
>I'd like to accept this summary as authoritative but since anybody can
put
>anything up on a website, I'm usually a bit reluctant to trust website
>information without some type of independent corroboration or other
evid
Bill Taffe wrote:
>I'd like to accept this summary as authoritative but since anybody can put
>anything up on a website, I'm usually a bit reluctant to trust website
>information without some type of independent corroboration or other evidence
>of the credibility of the site.
Very wise.
FWIW, I
Rick writes:
| On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:49 am, Karl Dallas wrote:
| > There is a special problem with regard to copyrights of
| > traditional music. [...]
|
| The funny thing is the way these things apply when filtered
| through the international treaties.
|
| Sometime back in the 1980's (I
Rick Miller wrote:
Sometime back in the 1980's (I think), Sir Paul McCartney took
advantage of some "special problems" in the British Copyright
law to claim the well-known traditional song, "Happy Birthday".
He then began demanding money for performances of "his" song in
the United States,
> | on 12/18/02 7:20 PM, Phil Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> |
> | > It's a bit more complicated than that.
> | > Try here:
> | > http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
>
I don't want to sound like a skeptic, but does anyone know if this website
is credible? Who is Lolly Gasaway, the auth
On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:49 am, Karl Dallas wrote:
> There is a special problem with regard to copyrights of
> traditional music. [...]
The funny thing is the way these things apply when filtered
through the international treaties.
Sometime back in the 1980's (I think), Sir Paul McCartney
>> Is there a FAQ that discusses copyright issues?
No, and the topic tends to be sharkbait.
I just discovered the Grove encyclopaedia has quite a good discussion
of this.
>> I would like to share/trade the tunes I collect, but most come from
>> old books (not necessarily public domain).
> The r
| on 12/18/02 7:20 PM, Phil Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > It's a bit more complicated than that.
| > Try here:
| > http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
That's a useful summary; I've bookmarked it.
tglaab writes:
| The book or collection is the protected work, the tunes themselves ar
Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [abcusers] music copyrights
Travis Glaab wrote:
>on 12/18/02 7:20 PM, Phil Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> It's a bit more complicated than that.
>>
>> Try here:
>>
>> http://w
Travis Glaab wrote:
>on 12/18/02 7:20 PM, Phil Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> It's a bit more complicated than that.
>>
>> Try here:
>>
>> http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
>
>
>O.K. That applies to original work, correct?
>
>What about traditional or folk songs that are first colle
on 12/18/02 7:20 PM, Phil Taylor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's a bit more complicated than that.
>
> Try here:
>
> http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
O.K. That applies to original work, correct?
What about traditional or folk songs that are first collected and then
published, for
Jeff Szuhay wrote:
>On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 03:45 pm, Travis Glaab wrote:
>
>> Is there a FAQ that discusses copyright issues? I would like to
>> share/trade
>> the tunes I collect, but most come from old books(not necessarily
>> public
>> domain).
>
>The rule of thumb for printed musi
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 03:45 pm, Travis Glaab wrote:
Is there a FAQ that discusses copyright issues? I would like to
share/trade
the tunes I collect, but most come from old books(not necessarily
public
domain).
The rule of thumb for printed music is that the copyright lasts for
20 matches
Mail list logo
