Richard Huggins wrote:
Well, actually...if the song is a copyrighted song an arrangement of it
cannot be copyrighted by anyone other than the owner of the copyright.
Not quite true, as far as I know. The copyright owner may, indeed
grant permission to the arranger to copyright the arrangement in
I got the impression that perhaps the copy he was working from had the
copyright notice chopped off at the bottom.
But assuming he is working from an original, he is still right that
copyright notices which may be very clear when printed, may still be
obscure or impossible to track at the prese
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Often on arrangements there is a copyright notice but the notice refers to
> the arrangement and not to the original copyright owner.
Well, actually...if the song is a copyrighted song an arrangement of it
cannot be copyrighted by anyone other than the owner of the cop
Often on arrangements there is a copyright notice but the notice refers to the arrangement and not to the original copyright owner.
All the best,
Lawrence
http://lawrenceyates.co.uk
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It is sometimes difficult to find out who the copyright owner is.
When you come right down to it, it's the copyright owner's
responsibility to provide that specific information at least in the
form of a copyright notice. No, it's not legally required since
January 1, 19
Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
Really, I don't think any publisher cares if some band director
makes his own arrangement to play with his own band. In fact, since
any additional performance of a work makes them more money through
performance rights, they LIKE people making arrangements.
Just two s
The publishers selling their music with single copies camera ready are
simply admitting to what is happening in practice anyway. It doesn't
affect the legal climate for anyone other than those publishers,
however. What publisher A allows in no way forces publisher B to allow
the same thing, u
Speaking to one side of this issue, but possibly a consideration being
weighed by the pubs that don't offer supplemntal parts, as a
composer-arranger of the band piece, I'd probably be more concerned about
the decisions the director made as to what he doubled, what he grouped, in
that the piece is
At 1:26 PM -0400 7/12/03, Tom Jordan wrote:
Whoa! This turning into a discussion between well intended, honest
engravers who will get permission from the copyright owner. However,
I see a serious issue with the overworked, short of time band
director who fixes his/her parts to make the ensemble
Whoa! This turning into a discussion between well intended, honest
engravers who will get permission from the copyright owner. However, I
see a serious issue with the overworked, short of time band director
who fixes his/her parts to make the ensemble a highly refined "music
machine." Damn the
The US Copyright Office has a form for your good intentions stating that if the copyright owner comes forward that you will pay them. I don't know other details on how that would work.
Tom Jordan
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 03:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is sometimes difficult to find
I should add that although my question is hypothetical, I have been
reading a band director who is praising how he can do these things with
Finale. I am a writer and a teacher, but not a band director. And I am
not certain that fair use covers transposing an oboe part for an alto
sax, although
Two excellent resources for copyright owner determination are the databases
of the performance rights organizations, ASCAP and BMI. Of course, if the
composer or publisher never registered the song with either of those, you
won't find it there, but most songs are registered with one or the other.
I don't know about for countries other than the U.S., but much copyright
information is searchable on the the Library of Congress web-site.
Other resources (for the U.S. at least) include www.mpa.org (Music
Publishers Association) which carries a list of publishers and their
imprints.
Yet othe
It is sometimes difficult to find out who the copyright owner is.
I wanted to make an arrangement of some copyright music (for a different type of ensemble from the original, but was unable to find an address to which to write to get permission. (The copy of the music I had was an arrangement but
Tom Jordan wrote, in part:
> What are publishers doing to address
> the creation of parts to match student
> band personnel?
Some, like Bayside Music Press, sell a set that includes a score and one
copy of each part. Purchase of the set includes permission to make
additional copies of parts fo
Tom Jordan wrote:
What are publishers doing to address the creation of parts to match
student band personnel?
Depends entirely on the publisher. But if you have a particular
situation, you can always call or write for permission to do what you
need to do, given that you do own legally-purchase
What are publishers doing to address the creation of parts to match
student band personnel?
This has come as a personal alarm to me. Do the publishers actually
grant any license to that junior high band with 12 tenor saxes and 1
trombone to duplicate or manufacture a transposed part for these a
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