Michael Edwards:
> What about the artistic issue? I am quite aware that many composers have
>borrowed short (and sometimes not-so-short) snippets, even without
>acknowledging
>them sometimes, but in no way trying to hide them either.
> ... my quote was about 3 bars and about 9 notes l
At 6:29 AM 07/02/02, Michael Edwards wrote:
> I have heard that if Handel were alive today he'd quite likely be in jail
>for copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement (in the United States, at least) is a civil offense,
not a criminal one. So he wouldn't end up in jail; rather, the cou
[Benjamin Smedberg:]
>> especially if I had worked it right through the texture of an extensive
>> passage of music, I would have been faced with an awkward decision: do I just
>> let the possible quotation stand - or do I throw away a lot of music which
>> uses that theme (or derivations or deve
> so, and especially if I had worked it right through the texture of an
extensive
> passage of music, I would have been faced with an awkward decision: do I
just
> let the possible quotation stand - or do I throw away a lot of music which
uses
> that theme (or derivations or developments of it)?
[Charles Small:]
> Your post reminded me of it, being the "reductio ad absurdem" of the line you
were
>following: if stealing a phrase of 4 notes (three Gs followed by the Eb a third
>below, say...) is infringement of copyright, how about "stealing" a single
note?
I wasn't really advocating
