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**rionetrozasa** · 05-15-2006, 09:30 AM

Ok, the two songs I had posted before were done by a guy who wrote in the 17th century for lute (Robert DiVisee), and by a guy who died in 1917 or so (Enrique Granados). So I am pretty sure both of the songs are now in the public domain.

Just a small point here.

Whilst the pieces themselves may be in the public domain, the arrangements may not be as they would probably be quite modern bearing in mind that, as the guitar didn't exist in its present form in the time of Robert de Visee and the Granados piece would have had to have been transcribed from the piano, these works as you played them would have had to have been later transcriptions.

I know that a lot of "classical" musicians get around this by going back to the manuscripts themselves and creating their own transcriptions if they're able but if you're using, for example, the transcriptions of Yasuo Abe for a piece by Bach or the transcription of de Visee's D Minor Suite by Frederick Noad and making money out of them by recording etc. there will probably be copyright issues in the same way as with a modern piece.

Cheers,

Matt. (Who isn't going into the way that some musicians change a small part of an arrangement someone else has done then pass it off as a new arrangement of that piece.

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05-15-2006, 09:30 AM	#23
rionetrozasa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 385 Senior Member	Ok, the two songs I had posted before were done by a guy who wrote in the 17th century for lute (Robert DiVisee), and by a guy who died in 1917 or so (Enrique Granados). So I am pretty sure both of the songs are now in the public domain. Just a small point here. Whilst the pieces themselves may be in the public domain, the arrangements may not be as they would probably be quite modern bearing in mind that, as the guitar didn't exist in its present form in the time of Robert de Visee and the Granados piece would have had to have been transcribed from the piano, these works as you played them would have had to have been later transcriptions. I know that a lot of "classical" musicians get around this by going back to the manuscripts themselves and creating their own transcriptions if they're able but if you're using, for example, the transcriptions of Yasuo Abe for a piece by Bach or the transcription of de Visee's D Minor Suite by Frederick Noad and making money out of them by recording etc. there will probably be copyright issues in the same way as with a modern piece. Cheers, Matt. (Who isn't going into the way that some musicians change a small part of an arrangement someone else has done then pass it off as a new arrangement of that piece. )
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