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@@ -545,6 +545,28 @@ lurl(http://www.wipo.int)
 information about international copyright)
 
 
+John Sankey:
+
+See lurl(http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/harpsichord.html)
+for a summary of copyright relative to old music, also for the
+expert forum for such questions.
+
+Werner Lemberg <sx0005@sx2.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE>:
+
+This is not correct.  Urtext editions per se are em(not) copyrighted
+-- if you print exactly what the composer has written, how can there
+some copyright be added?  Copyrighted are usually only the `Critical
+notes', the foreword, and the cadenzas some editors have added.
+
+This means that the `Photocopying forbidden' sign in many scores is
+not always correct for e.g. J.S. Bach -- you are allowed to copy the
+pages which don't contain editorial stuff which is probably
+copyrighted.
+
+A very unfortunate situation for the publishers.
+
+
+
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