<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv370829994">Even in Mexico, where, I believe, the term of copyright is a seemingly endless 100 years after the death of the creator, there would be no case of copyright infringement for using Tchaikovsky's music (d. 1893): Plagiarism is not necessarily copyright infringement. As well, there is no 'taking care of' involved in copyright as long as one can establish that one created the work (very easy nowadays with digital date stamping).<br><br>As for 'abuse' of a composer's music in TV commercials etc., the other side of 'moral rights' is parody. Would that recent concert music were sufficiently well known to sustain meaningful satire. All the same, a very fine example of stylistic parody is the Webern pastiche that I recall served as a variation on the Powdermilk Biscuits theme several years ago on A Prairie Home Companion. <br><br>Jay Rahn,
York University
(Toronto)<br><br> <br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/18/09, Ildar Khannanov <i><solfeggio7@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ildar Khannanov <solfeggio7@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Music Plagiarism Cases<br>To: smt-talk@societymusictheory.org, "Robert Judd" <rjudd@ams-net.org><br>Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 7:28 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1172311024"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"><div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>I would like to narrow this question to: "Has anyone compained about massive stealing of music of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, using and abusing it in TV commercials and movies?" I understand that poor P. I. did not take care of the copyright of his music, but the abuse of it has become simply ridiculous.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Dr. Ildar Khannanov</div>
<div>Professor of Music Theory</div>
<div>Peabody Conservatory</div>
<div>Johns Hopkins University<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/18/09, Robert Judd <i><rjudd@ams-net.org></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="plainMail">This is not as bizarre as Steve Soderberg's batting cage story, but<br>it's bizarre enough that I feel the need to share.<br><br>I got an inquiry some years ago at the AMS office re copyright and the<br>theme from "Jaws" (rising two-note semitone--who remembers the<br>"ominous semitone" thread on some e-list way back when?).. The maker<br>of a novelty "Shark Cookie Jar" that played the theme when the lid was<br>raised was concerned about the theme and copyright (held by Paramount<br>Pictures).. Paramount threatened to sue. The case never went to court;<br>the cookie jar maker changed it to a descending minor third (which I<br>hear as "nyah nyah").<br><br>Cheers,<br>Bob Judd<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.mc450.mail.yahoo..com/mc/compose?to=rjudd@ams-net.org">rjudd@ams-net.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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