On 10/22/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
The same goes for sheet music. I could prepare and
publish the sheet
music of a Mozart concerto, and while ths music itself would be public
domain, I would still have copyright in the published edition.
Plus, as Gregory mentioned, there can be entirely new copyrights in
things like transcriptions for different instruments or other
alterations and notations, not to mention new arrangements of the
music.
Speaking of Mozart... There are solutions to problems like this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3AMozart_Sonate_%28man…
But good luck reading that! (actually, his notation is more readable
than some others I've seen.. ;) )