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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Did this make the situation any clearer, arjaybe?
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I guessed that something unpublished fell under common law copyright.
I guessed that publishing triggers statutory copyright.
You tell me that CL copyright can be willed, so now I understand that it doesn't expire with the creator.
You say that a performance is not a publication. I'll take your word for it.
Yes, it's obvious that publishing a transcript of the performance is a violation of its copyright. I wouldn't think it would be a valid publication, so it shouldn't extinguish CL copyright.
My ignorance of CL copyright is due to knowing about the automatic copyright in Berne. Since learning that, I've always assumed that copyright (now understood to be statutory copyright) was automatically vested in the creator. It didn't occur to me that any other form was necessary.
I can see how CL copyright covers the gap between creation and publication.
rjb