[Foundation-l] Implications of IMSLP case

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 10/22/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at 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_%28manuscript%29.djvu&page=29

But good luck reading that! (actually, his notation is more readable
than some others I've seen.. ;) )