On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, District Webmaster wrote: > Just because Mozart could transcribe a symphony after hearing it doesn't > mean he did it, then went on to perfrom the work without the author's > permission.
Actually, I remember hearing a story along the same lines, where some composer had a top-secret symphony that he would only play at certain times/places, and Mozart somehow got a ticket and copied the whole symphony and, thereafter, played it without the original author's permission. (And, actually, copying of whole themes and ideas was rampant throughout classical music ... should Mozart's descendants have received royalties every time someone plays a Variation on his Theme? After all, if he _created_ the theme, to take his _creation_ (which /somebody/ has to own, right?) without permission would be morally and ethically wrong, isn't that the argument?) ~ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
