Re: Times article

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 12:51, Dan Ackroyd wrote:
> He said that without the efforts of specialists such as himself, many pieces
> of early music would be lost. Complete scores of work by composers such as
> Lalande (1657-1726), principal court composer to Louis XIV and Louis XV,
> often no longer exist and it takes considerable research to piece together
> surviving notations, fill in missing sections, and eventually produce music
> as close to the original as feasible."
>

The effort is very laudable, but it is what he is paid for as an
academic. It is certainly not what copyright is designed to protect. As
is said, it is an effort to produce music as close to the original as
feasible.

The only good thing I can see from this is that perhaps it will nudge
the music industry to reconsider the current state of copyright and
hence their lobbying efforts. We can always hope.

hen

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