Re: Guide to Writing Orchestral Scores with Lilypond?????

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 01/10/2013 12:09 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
> It was already discussed on this list: It was a silly idea to use copyrighted
> material at all for this tutorial. It was just something I was working on at
> that time, and I didn't really think about it ...

To be honest, I disagree.  This is something that a standalone project can 
reasonably do which the main project can't, and it's useful, because it shows 
how to solve real, complicated notational problems in Lilypond.  Contemporary 
music, which is almost all in copyright, generally presents the most complex 
notational problems to solve, and made-up examples don't cut it because there's 
no professionally-engraved example to compare them to.

Personally I think that I small library of _real_ contemporary musical examples, 
compared to the published score, would be an extremely useful resource for 
Lilypond.  It shouldn't be difficult to secure publishers' permission for short 
extracts.

> But I just reviewed my communication with UE and noticed that I (and them) only
> talked about the 'measures' of the music, not about which rendering of them
> (i.e. a scan of the UE edition or my new typesetting). They allowed me 'to show
> these music examples on my homepage' - any other use wasn't allowed.
> Which I think means that I can also put the original edition into it.

In any case, your use of these few measures probably comes under "fair use" 
exemptions for educational/teaching purposes, etc.

> But I probably won't touch it until I reformat it as a PDF version. There had
> been some valuable comments on this list right after the first 'release' of the
> tutorial - which still haven't been incorporated :-(

I'd say, don't wait for revisions which will require some thought -- just add in 
the original image now. ;-)