On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:51:14 -0500, Neeum Zawan wrote:

> On 07/12/09 22:15, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:26:22 -0600, somebody wrote:
>>
>>> Why would it then be any more
>>> disasterous if Marriage of Figaro were currently copyrighted as well?
>>
>> Actually, there are editions that are under copyright at the moment.
>> Just go to your local music store and buy a score - you'll see that
>> there is in fact a copyright notice.
> 
> 	But is that a copyright of the printed form, or of the actual 
music
> represented by the score? Perhaps they're just saying that you can't
> simply photocopy and reproduce, but it's OK for you to rewrite it
> yourself.

I know that photocopying it is a violation of the copyright, but yeah, I 
think you could probably transcribe it yourself.  That's kinda hard to do 
without another score, though, so I'm not quite sure what the difference 
technically would be.

Jim

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