-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008 schrieb Risto Vääräniemi: > 2008/10/7 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright. If it was published in > > 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S. > > In Europe (European Economic Area) the term of copyright ends when the > author has been dead for more than 70 years. Ravel died in December > 28, 1937 so almost 71 years has passed since his death. Based on that > Ravel's music should be PD. If Valentin has more accurate information, > feel free to correct me.
It's true that in most of the European countries (and many other countries around the world) Ravel's works become public domain on January 1, 2008. However, as far as I know (but then, IANAL) France is a little exception in that it does NOT count the years of the 2nd World War towards these 70 years for authors, who served in the war, so Ravel is apparently still protected in France (see also the English Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_copyright_law), but not in hardly any other country. However, we want to distribute lilypond also in France, so we have to abide by their copyright laws, too. Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI61/aTqjEwhXvPN0RArgVAJoDpBIcaompXPPbEfk6wH/fMSUkYQCg2IrT v2SImAbi2g4ygOJyFp8I23E= =1VPO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
