On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Hermann Hinsch wrote: > Hi Irwin, concerning the discussion about the copyright you wrote: > > >So if the composer has been dead for 70 years, and you > >have access to the compostition in it's original, > >unedited form, nobody can stop you from publishing it > >if you do the typesetting yourself. > > Is this true too if I use a commercially available facsimile as source?
Yes. If the facsimile is an exact copy of a work that is in the public domain, the contents of the facsimile is also in the public domain. The publisher will only have copyright on the printed pages, not on the contents. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
