Copyright in a special case (Frederic Rzewski)

[Werner Icking]

About 1996 I got somehow a bad single page copy of Frederic Rzewski's
f Frederic Rzewski's
"Les Mouton de Panurge". I typeset it just for fun, but didn't publish
it because of the uncertain copyright situation. Lateron in discussions
in rec.music.classical someone mentioned that Rzewski's music is free.
But the source wasn't enough authorative for me.

Some days ago I mentioned "Les Mouton de Panurge" in the German news 
group de.rec.klassik. One follow-up came from Alexis Rzewski:

<cite>
>From: Alexis Rzewski <address@hidden>
>Newsgroups: de.rec.music.klassik
>Subject: Re: Les Mouton des Panurge von Rzewski (was: Vorurteile ... moderner 
>Musik)
>Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:39:36 GMT
>Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>References: <address@hidden>

> Das erinnert mich ein bißchen an ein Stück von Frederic Rzewski "Les
> Moutons  des Panurge". Das Stück ist mir mal auf einem schon oft
> kopierten Zettel zugeflogen. Also vermutlich eine illegale Kopie.
> Deswegen kann ich auch meine "Reinschrift" wohl leider nicht verbreiten.
> Vermutlich täte ich sogar besser daran, diese gar nicht zu erwähnen :-(

frederic rzewski read this post and had this to say: "Les Moutons de
Pasnurge is published by Zen-On in Japan, but in general all of my music
can be copied freely by anybody who wants, on condition that they make
it available to anyone else who wants it.  This is more or less the
"copyleft" system. If you're interested, you can reach me by e-mail at:
address@hidden"
</cite>

  http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores/Instr.html#rzewski

Good to know -- Werner

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