the entire works of mozart have been digitised and made available on internet for “scholarly, personal study and for educational and classroom use”, but not to “make copies for personal use”…
so, if you and your symphony orchestra publically perform a work of mozart, and it is later discovered that you obtained the music from the neue mozart-ausgabe, you can be punished according to copyright law, but private performances are okay…
i’m sure that mozart, were he alive, would have something interesting to say about that…
bleah!
The material for Herr Mozart should have passed into the public domain by now, even with all the Mickey Mouse extensions. Anyone wanting to sue for copyright on that should be laughed out of court. But they won’t be.
I suspect Mozart would have had something to say about it, too. Although I’m not sure whether it would be because he wanted everyone to play it that could, or whether he would want a little bit of royalty payment.
rat own!
the schools are dropping music here, too, and at the same time, the government is bankrupting the country building up the military… it’s very sad…
In this day and age classical music should be free to all people willing to play it live as the composer intended. Our schools in the UK are simply dropping music, a good saxophone costs a thousand pounds now, schools can’t afford instruments, so providing the performance isn’t some digital rendering of the music there really should be exemptions to promote and keep players in our society.