Find a different headword. You don't want to screw around with "fair use". Is "fair use" under US law? Is it "fair dealing" under Canadian law? IIRC the last time we looked at this, my not-a-lawyer reading of the Canadian copyright law was that, since we weren't quoting a small exerpt *for the purpose of discussing that music*, it wasn't allowed. Of course, there was a new copyright law being proposed for Canada; it's been put off for the election, but I'm sure that it'll come back a few months from now. Would this quotation fit under that law's notion of "fair dealing"? Dunno.
And I haven't even *begun* to investigate what each European country's notion of "using a small piece of copywritten material" count as. Look guys: the 20th century is dead. Just assume that anything cultural from 1900 onwards is locked up, and you won't get into trouble and won't waste time on this garbage. I mean, how much brainpower has gone into this thread? We have professors, composers, programmers, musicians... reading emails, reading web-pages, writing emails... time to cut your losses. If you don't like baroque/classical/romantic music, then compose your own stuff. Hey, that's why I started composition in the first place -- I wanted to record a Britten solo cello suite and make it freely available on the 'net, but discovered that it was completely forbidden. Not-cheers, - Graham On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:31:51 -0500 Jonathan Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, do I need to do a different headword, or can this small excerpt > be considered "fair use"? (Or does the concept of fair use apply in > French copyright law?) > > Jon > > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- > Jonathan Kulp > http://www.jonathankulp.com > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
