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Other methods of musical data storage?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:12 pm
by joaquin.gray
I'm curious if the file format of scores has any legal implication.. in other words, if you capture the still-in-copyright score of someone like Ravel in a format similar to HTML (there are many of these) or MIDI, will it still count as infringement? Is it fair use? If anyone knows about this, it would be very informational if you could expound on such ideas!
Best, Joaquin
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:49 pm
by Carolus
In a word, the answer is: "yes" - it would still be a copyright infringement. Ravel's a bad example for most of the world, for he died in 1937 and his work is free in most countries with life-plus-70 terms. The works published after 1922 are still protected in the USA, though.
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:06 am
by Vivaldi
So does this mean that similar to performances, one would have to obtain permission from the composer, publisher or whoever holds the copyright to the music compositions before making a MIDI file of that particular work?