Re: Ferneyhough-style Interruptive Polyphony

[David Kastrup]

Tim Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Am 06.11.2013 16:39, schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling:
>>> > On 05/11/13 07:44, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>>> >> Please submit this snippet to the LSR!
>>> > He can't, it's the actual beginning of Ferneyhough's score and so 
>>> > under copyright.
>> Really?
>>  From my experience publishers don't have/make problems with giving a 
>> free licence to use such an excerpt for such a purpose.
>
> Indeed, the use of a SHORT snippet for educational or critical review
> purposes actually IS one of the allowed exceptions in the much
> misunderstood and often misapplied "fair use" clause in American
> copyright law.

Not everybody is living in the U.S.A. though, and the licensing in other
countries LilyPond may get distributed to is governed by local laws
invoked by corporations having cross-licensing deals.

That would be the case even if Ferneyhough were not British to start
with.

-- 
David Kastrup