Ted Walther <ted@reactor-core.org> wrote:Printed sheet music of public domain content is indeed copyrightable. The copyright does not apply to the content, but to the presentation. This makes sense, because (at least with classical music) a lot of effort goes into transcribing, researching the original manuscripts, adding performance hints and typesetting [1]. I think that the above is also valid if you transcribe from old sheet music instead of the original manuscripts, so I'd say that you could copyright the PDF. Since the midi, ogg and mp3 files reflect the pure content without any human interpretation, I doubt that they are copyrightable. I would publish the PDF with a preface, citing the original sources and outlining the changes that were made. This is common practice. If you then choose the standard copyright, people will still be able to make their own compilations from your work. If you want to encourage direct reuse, why not put the PDF into the public domain and ask people to credit you if they make modifications? I wouldn't use any of the documentation licenses. Those licenses are for works where you are the original creator, not for transcriptions. Stefan Krah [1] Unfortunately, the art of typesetting is on a steady decline, but that is another topic.
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