Mark D Lew wrote:
On Sep 15, 2004, at 7:45 AM, dhbailey wrote:
No, because it varies from country to country. Australia is
life-plus-50 while the US and much of Europe is life-plus-70.
Not quite. The United States has switched to the European model of
life-plus-70 for anything written today,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Giovanni Andreani wrote:
[...]
is there an official database where one can pick information about what
author and author's titles is/are or not of public domain?
[...]
David H. Bailey wrote:
No, because it varies from country to country. Australia is
Mark D Lew wrote:
On Sep 15, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
Thanks for nothing, US-based entertainment industries and weak Australian
government.
Believe me, plenty of Americans feel the same. Our own law was rushed
through Congress when the public was too distracted
[DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer, I don't practice copyright law, anybody
who follows any legal information I provide is sillier than I am]
Works in the U.S. which were published before 1923 had already lapsed
into the public domain when the new laws went into effect in 1979. So
there was
Owain Sutton wrote:
The subject kind of sums it up...
With multiple grace notes (eg 5 128th notes) in a row, is there any way
to create a 'slash' across the leading edge the beams, without a new
smartshape every time?
Have you tried applying the single-slash articulation to the grace notes?
--
John Poole [Finale Discussion] wrote:
[snip]
Here is a very concise flowchart that can help you weed out the issues
of copyright.
http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/copyright_durations.html
The flowchart is a link about half way down the page at the above URL.
I've scanned about 7 years
dhbailey wrote:
Owain Sutton wrote:
The subject kind of sums it up...
With multiple grace notes (eg 5 128th notes) in a row, is there any
way to create a 'slash' across the leading edge the beams, without a
new smartshape every time?
Have you tried applying the single-slash articulation to the
I'm working on a part what needs a lot of fingering marks most of which
overlap slurs and staff lines; which would be the best way to brake lines
and slurs in a way to leave a little empty space around the fingering numbers?
Thank you
Giovanni Andreani
Dear sirs:
I suggest to implement the following features in the Expression Tool for the
next release Finale 2005
1) The expressions with more than two lines does not appear correctly in the
dialog window. Also the long expressions overlap with the description making
both unreadable.
2) The
Dear sirs:
I suggest to implement the following features for the next release Finale
2005
1) Nudge expressions x pixels using option + arrows
2) x should be set in Programs Options
Javier Ruiz
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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Ciao Giovanni.
Use a enclosure with line width zero and set to opaque. This work in the
Expression Tool not in the Articulation one.
Javier.
I'm working on a part what needs a lot of fingering marks most of which
overlap slurs and staff lines; which would be the best way to brake lines
and
Hello Giovanni,
You can enter the numbers in the Shape designer (expression tool), adding a
white mask box to each. (Once you have done one, simply duplicate change
the number). Your numbers will then white out most musical elements.
Good luck!
Dan
At 08:28 AM 9/16/2004, you wrote:
Ciao
On 16.09.2004 13:57 Uhr, Giovanni Andreani wrote
I'm working on a part what needs a lot of fingering marks most of which
overlap slurs and staff lines; which would be the best way to brake lines
and slurs in a way to leave a little empty space around the fingering numbers?
Staff lines can be
This will work, but it is the old way of doing it. The new way--much easier--is to use
a text expression with an opaque enclosure.
Dan Carno wrote:
You can enter the numbers in the Shape designer (expression tool), adding a
white mask box to each. (Once you have done one, simply duplicate
This is a good point. For a slur to be broken (using either method offered here), the
slur must be measure-attached.
Johannes Gebauer:
Staff lines can be broken by using Expressions with opaque enclosures.
However, I don't think those will cover slurs, at least not in the
print-out.
on 9/16/04 7:55 AM, Randolph Peters at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We need a Finder-like window that is re-sizable, sortable, editable
in various ways including drag and drop, and one that uses
hierarchies such as folders and sub-folders. If we could make
discontinuous selections and then edit
On Sep 16, 2004, at 12:44 AM, Ken Moore wrote:
Not entirely safe in Europe. E.g. R Strauss, d. 1949, will be out of
copyright on 1 Jan 2020, and he wrote most of his tone poems (from
Macbeth and Don Juan via Till to Ein Heldenleben) before 1900.
Still three and a half months to go for Elgar,
At 7:32 PM -0400 9/15/04, Christopher Smith wrote:
I don't know where you confirmed this list, but
I see several Irving Berlin songs, and a few
Gershwin songs with lyrics by Ira, so I can't
imagine them being in the public domain yet. Ira
only died in the mid 80's, and Berlin in the
90's, and
At 5:23 PM -0700 9/15/04, Mark D Lew wrote:
Most of these songs would be protected under the life-plus-70 rule,
but I think most of Europe adopts the amendment to that rule which
says that if the song is PD in its original country then it's PD in
Europe also. Can someone confirm that?
Not
At 10:39 PM -0700 9/15/04, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Sep 15, 2004, at 9:12 PM, John Poole [Finale Discussion] wrote:
Incidentally, I trust everyone is aware of the *very embarrassing*
incident over http://www.jibjab.com which uses a well known
patriotic tune, Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land.
On 16 Sep 2004, at 04:40 PM, John Howell wrote:
I thought the cartoon won that case because it was ruled to be a
parody.
Right, parodies are always almost invariably legal -- although that
never stops copyright holders from trying to sue the parodists.
In any event, no doubt Woody Guthrie would
On 16 Sep 2004, at 04:55 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
If it's true that the vultures at Ludlow not only got laughed out of
court, but actually *lost* their (one presumes very lucrative)
copyright on Guthrie's song, well glory halleluia, there *is* some
justice in the world after all.
My understanding was that the suit was brought about because target of the
parody was not the song, but rather the presidential campaign.
I'm probably mistaken, though...none-the-less, I laughed at it...
On 9/16/04 3:40 PM, John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought the cartoon won that
BTW, here is the copyright notice Woody Guthrie affixed to his own
self-published songbooks:
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085,
for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our
permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't
Oh, okay -- here's the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) on the
settlement:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_08.php#001838
Music Publisher Settles Copyright Skirmish Over Guthrie Classic
EFF Believes This Land Is Your Land Belongs to You and Me
San Francisco - Music publisher Ludlow
Hello,
Changes made to the staff assignments in the Staff List dialog box
aren't updated on-screen unless you either (A) scroll the staff list
(which obviously only works if you have 8+ staves), or (B) close the
window.
At first, I thought this might only be a problem with older, imported
I wonder who Ludlow Music is. I've known Woody's kids since they were really kids. Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, Woody's widow, was my mother's best friend until Margie's death some years ago, and all the kids went to Indian Hill, a summer arts camp my parents ran in Stockbridge, MA. They were there
At 5:10 PM -0400 9/16/04, Darcy James Argue wrote:
BTW, here is the copyright notice Woody Guthrie affixed to his own
self-published songbooks:
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #
154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it
without our permission,
On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:24 PM, John Howell wrote:
Not true, unless some of these treaties signed during the Clinton
presidency changed things. It's always been quite common for music to
be copyrighted in one country and PD in another.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I realize that it's common for music
D. Keneth Fowler wrote:
Once again I go to the wisdom of the List.
WinFin 2004b. Some time ago I saved a Finale file in .wav format to
avoid using the Finale playback system where the data stream sometimes
chokes and the music stops. I don't remember how I handled the process,
but it worked
Hi David,
Thank you for your timely response. Looks very clear to me. I will give it
a go tomorrow and I expect it will work just fine.
Ken
At 08:42 PM 9/16/2004 -0400, you wrote:
D. Keneth Fowler wrote:
Once again I go to the wisdom of the List.
WinFin 2004b. Some time ago I saved a Finale file
Hi John,
Well, I'm not sure if this notice appeared on the original publication
of This Land Is Your Land -- in fact, I don't think it did.
But what it was intended to illustrate is that Guthrie didn't give a
dern about copyright. Effectively (at least at the point in his life
where he wrote
Someone from another list is looking for free or nearly free PC (not Mac)
ear training software, just for himself, not a classroom situation. I see
several out there; anybody recommend one in particular?
Thanks
Stu
For the price (free), you can't go past Music Trainers and Utilities
Hi Tobias,
Bit of a problem still with the new MacFin 2005 align-move shortcuts.
cmd-opt-numplus is also the OS X shortcut to zoom the screen if you
have Enable access for assistive devices turned on in Pref. Panes -
Universal Access. Unfortunately, this option *must* be checked in
order for
Title: Re: [Finale] Public Domain
Music
BTW, here is the copyright notice Woody
Guthrie affixed to his own self-published songbooks:
This song is Copyrighted in U.S.,
under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and
anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty
Sorry, never mind -- I figured it out.
For some reason, Turn on zoom somehow keeps getting checking in
System Prefs. Turning it off solves the problem (albeit only
temporarily, but it's good enough until I can figure out what's causing
it to turn on).
(You would think I would have noticed
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