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Bach's work is in the public domain, which means anyone can make their own recording. But, any recording of Bach's works will still automatically have its own c
by FreeFull 6y ago
Bach's work is in the public domain, which means anyone can make their own recording. But, any recording of Bach's works will still automatically have its own copyright, unless it's intentionally dedicated to the public domain too. The great thing about a public domain recording is that anyone can take it and use in any sort of artistic or even non-artistic endeavour, without having to worry about the usual "Contact the copyright owner, hope they will grant you a license that's not too expensive."
- markvdb 6y agoIn a lot of jurisdictions, the same goes for the actual sheet music. Even a lot of facsimile editions - literally photos- of the sheet music claim copyright to the "creative work" embedded in making the photo. The result being that in many jurisdictions, you'll have difficulties finding public domain sheet music of obviously public domain music for which it is clear (the longest living) composer died over 70 years ago.