From: fred Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:45:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: lilypond-1.1.15 X-Git-Tag: release/1.5.59~2675 X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f5dfab434a8e9e313ad75ccef2aaeac48a5775c;p=lilypond.git lilypond-1.1.15 --- diff --git a/Documentation/faq.yo b/Documentation/faq.yo index 1939a8e11f..bb1ff83233 100644 --- a/Documentation/faq.yo +++ b/Documentation/faq.yo @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ lurl(http://harmonia.scar.utoronto.ca). There is also a GUI package RoseGarden that could be extended to output mudela. If you want to work on this, please send e-mail to the mailing list -email(gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org). +email(gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org). question(I want to implement XXXX! How should I do this?) @@ -353,16 +353,16 @@ LilyPond already compiles into a different directory ((the different directory is called out/, there is one in every source directory). make distclean essentially reduces to file(rm -f out/*) in every directory - question(gdb crashes when I debug!) Upgrade to 4.17. -question(Why do I need g++ >= 2.7?) +question(Why do I need g++ >= 2.8 / EGCS-1.1 ?) -By using g++, GNU LilyPond is portable to all platforms which support -g++ (there are quite a few). Not having to support other compilers -saves us a em(lot) of trouble. +Supporting more compilers then EGCS/G++ 2.8 is unlikely to make +LilyPond run on more platforms. It would give us an enormous headache +in detecting and catering for every variant of every compiler: not +having to support other compilers saves us a em(lot) of trouble. sect(Running) @@ -414,11 +414,81 @@ done, and as a method of proof"reading" the input. The MIDI support is by no means finished. Patches appreciated. -sect(Other) +sect(Copyright) + +question(How does copyright for sheet music work? Can I enter and +spread my newly bought Bach urtext?) + + +Silas S. Brown : + +There are several aspects to sheet music copyright: + +1. The music itself - copyright for the composer's life plus 70 years (so +not applicable to Bach). + +2. If the music is an arrangement, then the arranger holds copyright on +that arrangement. However, you can produce your own arrangement using +that arrangement as a reference point. Obviously your arrangement must be +sufficently different to be called your own arrangement - you need to do +more than change one note! + +3. In some countries, the same applies for editions. This could be +relevant to the Bach example. If a modern person has edited the music, +then they hold the copyright on the edition. This does not stop you from +removing the editorial features - remove all editorial slurs, phrasemarks, +ornaments etc and only leave those that you know to be original. You can +then add some of your own if you want to be your own editor. + +4. If there are lyrics, then the lyricist also holds copyright. This +does not stop you from using the music without the lyrics if it is +otherwise out of copyright. + +5. The copyright of the printed page is held by the publisher for 30 +years after printing (25 in some countries). This stops you from +photocopying (unless it's "fair use" eg. you're partially sighted and need +to enlarge the music) or otherwise reproducing the typesetting that is +used on it. But the copyright is only held over the typesetting work, not +the music itself. Since Mudela specifies the notes, independently of any +typesetting work that went into your reference copy, you are not +duplicating any of the publisher's work. + +6. If you want to violate copyright, there are two main cases where you +may do so: fair use, and with permission. The former is rather fuzzily +defined, but it includes such things as including small extracts of a +score in a critique, and making a large print or Braille copy for a blind +or partially-sighted performer (many people argue that in this case it +should always be kept with the original copy and/or destroyed after it is +no longer needed). The latter is obvious: You can always write to the +composer, arranger, editor, lyricist or publisher in question and ask if +you can do whatever it is you're trying to do. Some will respond more +readily than others, but anything that they say will override any copying +restrictions imposed on you. + + +References - best one I know is the UK-based Performing Right Society, +http://www.prs.co.uk/ (especially "membership") and their links to other +international equivalents. + + + +Juergen Reuter : + +[More information can be had at: ] + +lurl(http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/) +(USA copyright law) + +lurl(http://fairuse.stanford.edu/) +(meta site about copyright with many links to other resources) + +lurl(http://host.mpa.org/crc.html) +(copyright from the viewpoint of the USA music publishers' association) -question(How does copyright for sheet music work? Can I enter and spread my newly bought Bach urtext?) +lurl(http://www.wipo.int) +(World Intellectual Property Organization (a UNO agency); with +information about international copyright) -(ummm... unanswered as yet) sect(Windows32)