[CM] ondes martenot

[Gregory D. Weber]

When I said
> > In the U.S., newer copyrights are for 20 years from the date of application, 
I meant
> > In the U.S., newer PATENTS are for 20 years from the date of application, 
The duration of copyrights is much longer.

rm at fabula.de writes:

> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:12:14PM -0400, Gregory D. Weber wrote:
> > "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb at cesmail.net> writes:
> > 
> > > I don't know of any digital ones, but apparently there are several
> > > original models or copies still in existence. Messiaen's Turangalila
> > > Symphony is performed fairly often and there are several ondists who
> > > perform on the instrument. The original patent was in 1928; does anyone
> > > know if that has run out?
> > 
> > In the U.S., newer copyrights are for 20 years from the date of application, 
> > but before 1995, the duration was 17 years from the date issued.  I got this 
> > from the patent FAQ here:
> >    http://www.patentcafe.com/faq/index.asp?id=2
> > 
> > I don't know about other countries, though.
> 
> Tsk, tsk, tsz .... musicians :-) copyright ain't patent. 
> I doubt that the patent would still be valid -- and most likely only applies
> to the "hardware" version, but IANL.
> 
>  Cheers Ralf Mattes
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > I'd think it would be easy to emulate digitally, but I'd rather seen and
> > > hear the real thing. :)
> > > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > -- 
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Gregory D. Weber             http://mypage.iu.edu/~gdweber/
                             Telephone (765) 973-8420
Associate Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Informatics Committee
Indiana University East
2325 Chester Boulevard, Richmond, Indiana 47374-1289, U.S.A.
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Plain text is the document format that maximizes readability and
minimizes hassle and hazard.  It is the format of the official documents
defining Internet protocols (http://www.rfc-editor.org/).