A Manual of Musical Copyright Law

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Excerpt from A Manual of Musical Copyright Law: For the Use of Music-Publishers and Artists, and of the Legal Profession A treatise on musical copyright, combining the results of a refined musical training with those of a legal one, is, the author believes, without precedent, or nearly so, the fact that his antecedents enable him to realise this combination was brought to his notice by several influential musical publishers and induced him to commit his practical experiences to paper. It was pointed out that one who is exclusively a lawyer wants the personal contact with the publishing trade, which is necessary for explaining and adjusting the legal rights and obligations of composers, executants and publishers of music, both as between themselves and as between either of those three classes and the public. Such an one may easily overlook, or not quite grapple with, an infinity of subtle points likely to arise in business. He is not practically familiar with those niceties of trade which are only acquired by a series of personal dealings with music publishers, British and foreign, during many years. Not having the habit of closely analysing and dissecting melodic phrases, and relying merely on an untutored ear, he overlooks details of importance, with the result that he sees resemblances where the whole phrase, studied in its entirety, shows that none really exist, again, there are cases where the cultured musician would scent out an origin, common both to a supposed piratical copy of a given theme and to the theme itself, and the family likeness may be sufficiently definite to take away the right to complain of an infringement, but the mere lawyer, in such cases, might be misled into advising an action by the close similarity between the original phrase and the copy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.