Re: music and copyright

From: Bernard Katz <bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:42:02 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Peter Groves <peter.groves[_at_]virgin.net> wrote:
>
> In the UK, you'd have to watch out for copyright in the typographical
> arrangement of the particular edition (s 8 CDPA 1988). This only lasts
> for 25 years from the end of the year in which the edition was first
> published, and (of course) republication of the same typographical
> arrangement does not start a new period of protection running, so
> there must be a good chance that it is not a problem.
>
> I'm aware that this is one of the more idiosyncratic parts of UK
> copyright law: do other countries (presumably, those whose copyright
> law is derived from ours) have anything similar?

We do not protect the typography in Canadian law -- and thank the good lord for that!

Cheers,
Bernard Katz, Head, Special Collections and Library Development McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Guelph ON Canada N1G 2W1

   and Chair, Ontario Library Association Copyright Task Force bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca // (519) 824-4120 X2089 // FAX: (519) 824-6931

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