Re: Re: Fwd: Public Domain Copy of a Performance of the ABC's Song

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Steven Jamar wrote:

> The music was immortalized by Mozart, and all he did was write a set of
> variations on a French melody created by someone else....
>
> Note that if you find a sound recording of someone performing it,
> there is probably a copyright in the performance, although not in the
> music or lyrics.

I would warn that a particular arrangement may very well be subject to copyright as a musical work, so I don't think it's perfectly safe to conclude that there's no copyright in the music of a particular recording. Received on Thu Aug 31 2006 - 22:55:00 GMT