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Special forum features: inserting music notation, posting audio recordings.
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Author: rt
Posted: Nov 16 2009 - 11:47 AM
Subject: re: re: re: Copyright, fair use, and playing 10 notes of a melody
Author: littletyke
Posted: Nov 16 2009 - 11:11 AM
Subject: re: re: Copyright, fair use, and playing 10 notes of a melody
Author: rt
Posted: Nov 15 2009 - 09:52 PM
Subject: re: Copyright, fair use, and playing 10 notes of a melody
these are interesting questions - but I am not a laywer, so I cannot really answer them authoritatively. Am very interested in comments from experts!
The overwhelming part of the Musipedia collection is classical music and therefore in the public domain, so one should be able to do with those data whatever one pleases - as long as we are only talking about the musical themes and not recordings thereof, recently typeset sheet music etc.
- Rainer
Author: littletyke
Posted: Nov 15 2009 - 03:36 PM
Subject: Copyright, fair use, and playing 10 notes of a melody
I've just discovered this web site! The melody search feature is very impressive. Back in 2007 I converted an Apple Mac-based Tunefinder database to Windows. (The result is here: http://www.littletyke.myzen.co.uk/index.html) One question I have always had - but can't afford legal advice (I am retired and am just doing programming as a hobby now) - is, to what extent can fair use be claimed if one plays up to ten notes of a melody?
I see that the Musepedia Melody Search allows such a music fragment to be played, so the author of the feature must have considered the copyright issue. Previously, on a Piano World forum, I received mainly negative reactions, with the suggestion that copyright law was so Draconian, no fragment of any length could be considered fair use without obtaining expensive legal advice first.
In my application the ten notes are all that is stored for each tune. The intervals between the notes locate the tune and the resultant hits, if any, are displayed in a list box. The list box lists the composer, name of the piece and movement, where applicable. My application could be enhanced considerably by allowing the user to hear the search fragment within the context of the 10-note excerpt.
Thanks for any advice!
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How to insert music:
Add a bit of sheet music, along with a MIDI file, simply by entering note names in Lilypond syntax between the [L] and [/L] tags.
For example, you can try what happens if you enter: [l]g'4 g'4 d''4 d''4 e''4 e''4 d''2[/l] (use the Preview function if you don't actually want to post this).
You can create these lists of note names by clicking on piano keys here.
How to post an audio recording:
If you just want to sing, whistle, or play a melody so that other forum visitors can hear it, follow these steps:
- Record your audio here.
- You should notice a 32-character hash code, something like: 2a40281c5001c5a7d8c9f57fcdeccfaf
- copy this hash code and paste it into a forum post, enclosed in the audio tags, for example: [audio]2a40281c5001c5a7d8c9f57fcdeccfaf[/audio]
How to mark a thread as solved:
If the original question in a thread is solved, please mark it as solved using the "solved" icon (or by just typing [solved] into your post). This makes life easier for people who are willing to identify melodies, since unsolved problems are easier to spot that way. If a problem turns out to not be solved after all, just write [/solved] in a new post, and the thread will be labeled accordingly.