Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: > 2012/2/10 Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net>: >> On 10/02/12 10:00, Janek Warchoł wrote: >>> Heck, let's do it! >>> Do you know of any famous pieces of music without freely accessible >>> scores? [...] >> >> The minimum required by the Berne convention is 50 years beyond the authors >> death before a work becomes public domain. > > Ok, here are some ideas: > - Sergei Rachmaninoff died in March 1943. If we start a year-long > project now, we will finish roughly when most of his works will fall > out of copyright.
How would one cooperate while they are not yet out of copyright? Want to risk having your servers seized? It is in the best interest of Sergei Rachmaninoff if anybody doing things like that ends up in jail, since he was able to provide a living for his grandchildren only by selling rights to publishing companies that paid as much since they were planning to make the most of it, with him living or dead. I expect that in a few years, composers becoming famous in their life time will get life support systems paid by their publishers, preferably after they are brain dead but in a defensible way not legally dead, in order to be able to extend copyrights. Every publishing company will entertain a zombie house where some parts of composers/writers are kept legally alive for the sake of copyright extensions. > - Maurice Ravel died in 1937 > - Gabriel Faure died in 1924 > - Camille Saint-Saens died in 1921 > - Claude Debussy died in 1918 > > Thoughts? > I'm pretty sure that there might be appropriate works of older > composers, just like Bach's Goldberg Variations, but i'm not > knowledgeable in this area. There is certainly quite a matter of material that would be worth publishing at a level better reviewed and controlled than "somebody typed it off once". -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
