Hi all, Here is a mail I received from mma's upstream. He provides a link to a page giving good information on public domain musics, and how to identify them. I found the explanation useful, and have be referenced somewhere (like the archives of this list).
Raphael -----Message transféré----- > From: Bob van der Poel > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Musical files and chords] > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:08:44 -0700 > > > >>Given that this is from a professional publisher, who has > >>obviously done extremely thorough copyright clearing > >>negotiations to get all those 555 melodies in the book, one > >>might assume that they did not remove those chord annotations > >>without strong legal advice of its necessity. > > Well, isn't that interesting. Of course, just because some says "I have > copyright on x", that doesn't mean they do ... see the SCO/Linux debate > for the truth of this. > > I wondering if in the songbook case someone wrote the chords over the PD > music? Well, it sure is interesing. > > I did a bit of searching, and figured you might enjoy reading the pages > here: http://www.pdinfo.com/identify.htm > > Thanks for the info. >
