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by Carolus
Sun May 06, 2007 6:58 am
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: New special page for admins and copyright review request
Replies: 8
Views: 6023

The vast majority of Reger's works were first issued by Aibl and Peters. As I recall, the B & H complete edition didn't even re-engrave the majority of works but merely reprinted the originals with minor corrections. Reger (d. 1916) would have gone PD in Germany back in 1967. I seriously doubt t...
by Carolus
Sat May 05, 2007 1:31 am
Forum: IMSLP Announcements
Topic: IMSLP site speed issues fixed
Replies: 6
Views: 8720

Thanks for the great work - it certainly runs faster now for me, even on my old wheezing Mac, which almost feels almost young again when cruising about IMSLP!
by Carolus
Sat May 05, 2007 1:26 am
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Marcel Dupre
Replies: 9
Views: 9192

Hi, Yes, I'll be happy to accept admin priviledges for dealing with the copyright work. That way I don't have to keep coming here about every obvious infraction. We can reserve those visits for issues where there's a real question! One of the Dupre pieces - the Op. 29 "Chemin a la Croix" -...
by Carolus
Fri May 04, 2007 9:57 pm
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Marcel Dupre
Replies: 9
Views: 9192

Marcel Dupre

Since he died in 1971, he's protected in Canada and the other 50-year countries. The works posted at IMSLP are all free in the USA due to their publication before 1923. If they are not there already, they should be reloacted to the USA server.
by Carolus
Fri May 04, 2007 9:45 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Community Portal
Replies: 2
Views: 2604

Thank you very much, Leonard, for a great organization and layout job on the Community Portal. It's very clear and concise, with easy access to the detailed information propective contributors need. A couple of comments: The "view this score" feature at Sheet Music Plus, while useful, is n...
by Carolus
Thu May 03, 2007 1:11 am
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: status tagging
Replies: 13
Views: 11894

Peter raises a very good point here. I've noticed a couple of things in the past few days posted by isaac_sanmiguel that are fishy from the copyright angle. The virtualsheetmusic.com edition of Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto was fairly glaring and has been dealt with by Feldmahler. The 1981 Doblinger e...
by Carolus
Tue May 01, 2007 10:41 pm
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto
Replies: 1
Views: 3266

Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto

It appears that someone has posted a new, Sibelius-engraved score of the piano reduction from virtualsheetmusic.com., complete with company logo.

I recommend that it be removed right away unless the poster has written permission, which is highly unlikely.
by Carolus
Tue May 01, 2007 7:36 pm
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Eulenburg Scores
Replies: 3
Views: 5733

A couple of points: 1. The presence of a forward dated before 1939 means that the edition in question was first published in Germany, since Eulenburg's London office was merely a subsidiary address until that date. The German copyright rule for editions (25 years) applies in these cases. If the copy...
by Carolus
Tue May 01, 2007 6:47 am
Forum: Moderator Requests - Help - FAQ
Topic: Some curious composer categories
Replies: 4
Views: 3158

Not sarcasm, just a teeny bit of gentle irony. Besides, Signor Anonimo is surely a much more musical name than that of the black sheep of the family from Deutschland: Unbekannt. After all, a single place for the works of unknown composership is actually a good idea and can even help in ascribing the...
by Carolus
Tue May 01, 2007 1:29 am
Forum: Moderator Requests - Help - FAQ
Topic: Some curious composer categories
Replies: 4
Views: 3158

Some curious composer categories

I just noticed three right off the bat. First of all there's Anonimo. Perhaps the contributor was thinking of the famous Signor Anonimo, most prolific of all Italian school 18th century composers, perhaps his esteemed colleague Signora Anonima as well. Of course, there's his English cousin - Anonimo...
by Carolus
Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:15 am
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: urtext policy
Replies: 2
Views: 3523

Baerenreiter was very sloppy and haphazard about US copyright renewals for all things published before 1964 (after which date the renewal became automatic). They apparently left the renewal decision up to the individual editors and their heirs. Thus a fair number of titles from both the Neue Bach Au...
by Carolus
Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:26 am
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Icking Archive
Replies: 31
Views: 24876

As for the Icking Archive, I was under the impression that most things there are re-engravings and arrangements of older works using Finale, Sibelius and other programs. In general, the emphasis here at IMSLP is more on scans of older editions. So, apart from some works that are not readily availabl...
by Carolus
Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:17 am
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Works published in the former Soviet Union
Replies: 4
Views: 5827

Russia changed the copyright law to a life-plus-50 term in 1994. It was applied retroactively. That was the law that was already in place upon the effective date of GATT/TRIPs - 1/1/96. The USSR had made some changes in 1973 when they signed the UCC Treaty as well.
by Carolus
Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:02 am
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Russian editions
Replies: 2
Views: 4299

Not much to add here. Feldmahler is right on the mark about CDSM. The only cases I know of where they included some copyrighted works were for some copyrights of Presser back when CDSM was being distributed by Presser. (American Concert Piano works was the volume, I think.) CDSM is horrific about sc...
by Carolus
Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:27 pm
Forum: Copyright Related
Topic: Scores which I have
Replies: 26
Views: 23012

Hi Aldona, a quick note on Eulenburg: Any Eulenburg score dated before 1939 was actually published in Leipzig, since the company's headquarters were located there until that date, the year Kurt Eulenburg moved the firm to London. The Leipzig facility was closed and never reopened. Also, many of the ...