Re: Headword for unfretted-strings

[Rutger Hofman]

Ravel died in 1937. In almost all countries, copyright lasts 70 years 
past the death of the author (I think Canada still has the 50-year rule, 
as one of the very few exceptions; and exceptions never extend the 
period of protection). Since Jan 1, 2008, Ravel's works are free of 
copyright.

U.S. has had a regulation that was based on the date of publication (50 
years after publication the work would enter p.d.). That regulation 
holds only for a limited time window of publication date. It still 
applies e.g. to some Stravinsky works that can be found at Kalmus etc 
(and some Ravel works until 2008-01-01), but not for vaguely recent work.

Rutger

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> Oh man, I really don't know about the copyright.  If it was published in 
> 1905, then it's in p.d. in the U.S.  If I'm not mistaken, the pdf I 
> downloaded from the International Music Library Score Project was made 
> from a Dover score, and I think those are always made from public domain 
> stuff.  If there's any hesitation to include it, then I could do a 
> fragment of something older.  Even if we can't use the Ravel, it was a 
> fun diversion from the big orchestral score I've been trudging through 
> and I learned a number of things I hadn't known how to do before :).
>
> I don't really know how to deal with the staff spacing and was just 
> going to look at the docs for guidance when I had some more time.
>
> Glad you're pleased with it, Trevor.  Could you email me the code with 
> the time sig removed?  I've never figured out how to do this except by 
> making it transparent, which looks ugly b/c there's a blank space.  I 
> want to see how you did it.
>
> Jon
>
> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Jonathan Kulp wrote Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:04 AM
> >
> >
> > > Ok I've put together six bars of the Ravel quartet.  File is attached 
> > > so you can see it looks like it'll be appropriate.  It would be nice 
> > > to have a couple of fingerings and bowing indications, but this 
> > > passage didn't have any.  There are some pizz. and arco and up-bow on 
> > > the next system but it would  get long if I kept going.  Should I go 
> > > ahead and include the next few bars?
> > >
> > > This still needs some tweaking to make it look like the original 
> > > (tighten staff spacing, get rid of the time signature) but otherwise 
> > > I like how it looks.
> >
> > Wow! That was quick!  I make a request last thing
> > at night, go to bed, and there it is before breakfast!
> >
> > It looks great!  Unfortunately it would get too long
> > if you added any more bars.  I've added the correct midi
> > instruments (strings sound poor, but a piano sounded
> > worse on this piece!)  I've also removed the time
> > signature as you suggested, but I've done nothing
> > about the staff spacing.  Any suggestions for this?
> >
> > I'll add it to the docs so we can see how it looks.
> > I'm not sure about the copyright position though :(
> > Valentin's happy, but maybe others will not be.  We
> > already have Ravel's sonatine (1905) in Keyboards,
> > so maybe these few bars are OK too.
> >
> > Many thanks again.
> >
> > Trevor