Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 5:34 Uhr John Howell wrote: That is actually not surprising at all. Because U.S. copyright law was based on date of first publication, and most European law was based on the lifetime of the composer, a great many works were in copyright in Europe but in the public domain in the U.S. Not a

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 5:11 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: When I ordered my own gamba I insisted that it be built for 440 rather than 415, since I'm convinced that 415 is not really historically justified. It's actually quite simple: 415 was approximately the pitch that Bach used in Leipzig for the church music.

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 9:50 Uhr Johannes Gebauer wrote: In Europe there is also a copyright of the engraving itself, which I understand is not possible in the US. In Europe it is simply illegal to reprint an engraved page as long as it is in copyright (75 years?). It makes no difference whether it contains any

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 5:34 Uhr John Howell wrote: That is actually not surprising at all. Because U.S. copyright law was based on date of first publication, and most European law was based on the lifetime of the composer, a great many works were in copyright in Europe but in the

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 13:54 Uhr dhbailey wrote: But if a person has one of those engraved/copyrighted editions where no significant editorial additions were made to a public domain work (e.g. a Bach organ prelude), is a person in Europe legally able to make their own version using that copyrighted-for-engraving

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: [snip] I realize that, the way you explained things you couldn't make a photocopy even if the original music is out of copyright. Absolutely. Are you sure this would be different in the US? If you brought out a new edition of a work by Bach, could anyone photocopy

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread John Howell
At 9:50 AM +0200 9/4/05, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 5:34 Uhr John Howell wrote: That is actually not surprising at all. Because U.S. copyright law was based on date of first publication, and most European law was based on the lifetime of the composer, a great many works were in copyright in

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread John Howell
At 11:29 AM +0200 9/4/05, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Furthermore I'd like to add: there are special copyrights in Europe for publishing previously unpublished music. Even if a piece was composed 500 years ago a publisher can claim the publication rights which will, as far as I understand, give

Re: [Finale] file overwrite bug

2005-09-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:33 AM 9/4/05 -0400, shirling neueweise wrote: i use auto-save when working on the score, normally turn it off when doing parts, and had simply forgotten taht this was one of the things related to the bug and neglected to turn it off. crap. I have not been bitten by these bugs in any

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now OT color-coding unfairness

2005-09-04 Thread Raymond Horton
David W. Fenton wrote: I had forgotten about the green Kalmus covers -- I never owned any of those myself, but did use many of them from teachers. Then there are the newer eggshell green glossy covers (the orchestral score series), and I'd forgotten about those. I have no memory of brown

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread Raymond Horton
Ray Horton wrote: The only parts they dislike more are the old french parts with the backward quarter rests for eighth rests and other difficulties. John Howell wrote: Actually it's backward eight rests for quarter rests. We ran into that with the Saint-Saëns A Minor Cello Concerto last

Re: [Finale] file overwrite bug

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17:14 Uhr Randolph Peters wrote: It usually is Shift-Command-S on a Mac. and with 2k6 even Finale implements it. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] file overwrite bug

2005-09-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Jef, Autosave is not related to the file overwrite bug. In fact, autosave can help you tremendously, because the most recently autosaved version of your conductor score is probably okay. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 04 Sep 2005, at 7:33 AM, shirling neueweise wrote:

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 9:48, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 5:11 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: When I ordered my own gamba I insisted that it be built for 440 rather than 415, since I'm convinced that 415 is not really historically justified. It's actually quite simple: 415 was approximately the

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 9:31, dhbailey wrote: For instance, Hal Leonard has brought out a couple of fake books of obviously public domain material, either material old enough to be public domain but with known composers, or folk songs with no known composer and also old enough to be public domain,

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 10:17, John Howell wrote: This graphic copyright has never existed in U.S. law, which may explain why the reprint houses like Kalmus, Dover, and Luck's are all located in the U.S. One can trademark a graphic such as a recognizable logo, but not copyright it. I don't quite

Re: [Finale] file overwrite bug

2005-09-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 4, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17:14 Uhr Randolph Peters wrote: It usually is Shift-Command-S on a Mac. and with 2k6 even Finale implements it. in 2005, too (on Panther, at any rate.) Christopher ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] file overwrite bug

2005-09-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 4, 2005, at 7:33 AM, shirling neueweise wrote: finally got bit. macfin 2005r.1 snip i use auto-save when working on the score, normally turn it off when doing parts, and had simply forgotten taht this was one of the things related to the bug and neglected to turn it off.

AW: [Finale] Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread lists
--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Datum: 04.09.2005 20:19 Von: finale@shsu.edu An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament But I don't play Bach -- for one, he wrote not a whole lot of music David, I was not at all trying to disagree with you. I was merely trying to shed

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread John Howell
At 2:19 PM -0400 9/4/05, David W. Fenton wrote: But I don't play Bach -- for one, he wrote not a whole lot of music for gamba, and what he did write is *very* hard (I am reluctantly concluding that Bach didn't know the gamba very well, because the gamba sonatas really aren't like other advanced

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread John Howell
At 2:37 PM -0400 9/4/05, David W. Fenton wrote: I don't see the other reprint houses as being at all on the same level -- they add nothing, and reprint without permission, as long as it's not copyrighted in the US. You may be quite right about Dover. I included them because they are, in

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now OT color-coding unfairness

2005-09-04 Thread dhbailey
Raymond Horton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I had forgotten about the green Kalmus covers -- I never owned any of those myself, but did use many of them from teachers. Then there are the newer eggshell green glossy covers (the orchestral score series), and I'd forgotten about those. I have

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 4 Sep 2005 at 9:31, dhbailey wrote: For instance, Hal Leonard has brought out a couple of fake books of obviously public domain material, either material old enough to be public domain but with known composers, or folk songs with no known composer and also old

Re: AW: [Finale] Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 21:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Datum: 04.09.2005 20:19 Von: finale@shsu.edu An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament But I don't play Bach -- for one, he wrote not a whole lot of music I was not at all trying

Re: [Finale] Saving BUG?

2005-09-04 Thread Nomos Alpha
Have in mind that a MIDI file only handle 16 channels, and provides no way of expand that limitation. Of course that does not explain the problem with the audio exporting. Javier. It seems to be limited to the PC, as I haven't heard of any Mac users reporting it. But it looks like this is a

Re: [Finale] Pointer error?

2005-09-04 Thread Nomos Alpha
The file is clearly truncated. I opened with an hexadecimal editor and it shows the header in good shape but it ends before expected. It starts with: ENIGMA BINARY FILEFinale(R) 2005 Copyright (c) 1987-2004 MakeMusic! Inc. Lo siento, Rafael, vas a tener que rehacer el trabajo. Saludos, Javier.

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 16:28, John Howell wrote: At 2:19 PM -0400 9/4/05, David W. Fenton wrote: But I don't play Bach -- for one, he wrote not a whole lot of music for gamba, and what he did write is *very* hard (I am reluctantly concluding that Bach didn't know the gamba very well, because the

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now OT color-coding unfairness

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 17:16, dhbailey wrote: Raymond Horton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I had forgotten about the green Kalmus covers -- I never owned any of those myself, but did use many of them from teachers. Then there are the newer eggshell green glossy covers (the orchestral

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 16:35, John Howell wrote: At 2:37 PM -0400 9/4/05, David W. Fenton wrote: I don't see the other reprint houses as being at all on the same level -- they add nothing, and reprint without permission, as long as it's not copyrighted in the US. You may be quite right about

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Sep 2005 at 17:18, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 4 Sep 2005 at 9:31, dhbailey wrote: For instance, Hal Leonard has brought out a couple of fake books of obviously public domain material, either material old enough to be public domain but with known composers, or folk

Re: AW: [Finale] Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 04.09.2005 23:35 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: Well, I'm quite well aware of where it comes from and that's why I also know that it's a pragmatic solution to a problem that is much more complex than most people are aware. When it is assumed that everyone playing early music plays at 415,

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 04.09.2005 22:28 Uhr John Howell wrote: And the two gamba parts in Brandenburg 6 are certainly not virtuoso parts, with the 2nd part very likely written for the Prince. As to bowings, do we know for sure what Bach's bowings were? Is there an autograph? I really can't remember. For the

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 04.09.2005 23:52 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: Closer to is not the point -- the point is that 415 as the choice for the lower pitch is not justified by historical evidence but by modern practicality because A440 is the standard pitch and using a lower pitch 1/2 step lower was an easy

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 04.09.2005 23:56 Uhr David W. Fenton wrote: Well, I know for a fact that Dover reprints certain European editions with permission of the European copyright holders (some of the Mozart operas are in this class). I have got the Dover Score of the Marriage of Figaro here. Taken from a

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Howell wrote: I am curious whether the E.U. has regularized differences in copyright law among its various countries, or whether that was already accomplished through Berne, etc. I think it was supposed to, but has not completely succeeded. For example, while Germany, and I presume,

Re: [Finale] US copyright question - now editions

2005-09-04 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David W. Fenton wrote: I don't quite understand the inclusion of Dover in that list. They are a very different operation. They sometimes reprint editions that are under copyright outside the US, and when they do so, they do it with permission (I assume that means they've made a financial

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Sep 2005 at 0:20, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 04.09.2005 22:28 Uhr John Howell wrote: And the two gamba parts in Brandenburg 6 are certainly not virtuoso parts, with the 2nd part very likely written for the Prince. As to bowings, do we know for sure what Bach's bowings were? Is there

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-04 Thread John Howell
At 12:20 AM +0200 9/5/05, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 04.09.2005 22:28 Uhr John Howell wrote: And the two gamba parts in Brandenburg 6 are certainly not virtuoso parts, with the 2nd part very likely written for the Prince. As to bowings, do we know for sure what Bach's bowings were? Is there

[Finale] Back up

2005-09-04 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ok, guys, I'm sorry, but I'm still confused (a congenital condition, I assure you). Ok, so I'm working on a Fin File, and after a hard day's work, I wish to back up said file. I insert a black disc in my new iMac G5, give it a name, and move the file in question to the disc. I burn it.