Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer

[Thorkil Wolvendans]

Hi list!
I was just wondering: what would happen if you publish a work at Mutopia of 
which you think is in the public domain, but there are copyright's you've 
missed (for instance editor copyright's which haven't expired yet). Does 
anyone have an idea what would happen? Would you be summoned to take it 
offline (which sounds fair to me) or would you be immidiatly sued, send to 
jail and sleep in a dark corner of the almighty dungeon where you have to 
eat bread with spiders for evermore (which doesn't really sound fair to me).

Regards,
Thorkil

At 10:15 22-3-04, you wrote:
> I'm afraid it's not exactly that simple. An urtext edition can involve
> a lot of editorial work. Often, there are several different sources
> (handwritten manuscript, first printed version) and an editor must
> judge which source to trust most or if several alternatives should be
> printed. Also, even Urtext editions often contain some additional slurs
> and other markings that wher4e included by the editor to correct for
> more or less obvious mistakes in the original.
> I'm certainly not a layer, but I fear that such editorial work may be
> copyrighted even though the original music is in the public domain and
> the edition is marked as Urtext.
>
>    /Mats
>
> Roland Goretzki wrote:
> > Hello list, hello Kilian,
> > You wrote:
> >
> > > The *music* itself isn't copyrighted, since the composers died more
> > > than 100 years ago. If your printouts don't claim a copyright, and/or
> > > are underived work ("Urtext", i.e. reproductions of the autographs),
> > > they contain no "creative additions" to the compose's work.
> > >
> > > In other words: take an "Urtext" edition and lilypondize it. Henle is
> > > a good candidate (they made a lot of "Urtext" editions).
> > It's not easy for me to believe, that this is SO EASY.
> > I'm not a lawyer, but if some other mutopia-writers on this mailing-list
> > can affirm, what You say, then I'll go on working. :)
> >
> > > Or ask me; IIRC, I've Henle's Urtext-Editions of all Beethoven sonatas
> > > and maybe of some Chopin etudes.
> > Thank You, but for the moment I have enough material with "Urtext". :)
> > Best Regards           Roland
> >
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