Re: Another Lilypond Story

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 17 December 2004 01.24, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:16 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 December 2004 22.10, address@hidden wrote:
> > > (This does not mean that the music is not copyrighted, or that it is
> > > not subject to execution rights, it just means that the score are
> > > available free of charge).
> >
> > Did you check if there is a license at Creative Commons
> > (creativecommons.org) which would be adequate to use for the score?
> >
> > It might be a better protection for your copyright, if you attach a
> > concrete license to the score, which clearly states what you may and may
> > not do, written in lawyer language. There are many different licenses at
> > CC, chances are that one of them suits you.
>
> A license *might* protect some evildoer ripping you off but it won't
> protect you,  You don't want to give all and sundry any license.  I use
> "possession of this document does not confer on the bearer any rights at
> all."  You have the copyright.  A license cannot improve on that.  daveA

IANAL, but would not that copyright disclaimer forbid anyone from even 
downloading and viewing the document?

For this reason, it can be nice to your homepage's visitors to tell them what 
they actually are allowed to do with the document. For this purpose, a formal 
license can be a good thing.

Erik