Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE

Subject: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Trouble at Mill
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 11:53 AM

Thanks for all the support re this - I phoned the patents office - the number he gave me is 'Dead' - The lady said that the Patents office does not 'copyright and that I was doing nothing wrong.

I have written to Mr Oglesby at The English Corset Co [[e-mail]] to tell him that it is back on line and that he is free to use it.

Legal note (I do use the title of a Jethro Tull song for my signature)


Graham Dixon
Too old to Rock & Roll
Too young to die

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 03:57 PM

I notice that his English Corset Company website has a "currency converter". Wonder if he's patented that, too. (Or maybe he doesn't know the difference between currency/chords/corsets???)

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 05:25 PM

All your images are broken... so your chord converter is back up like Mudcat is stable...

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 10:54 AM

Nice work, Graham. I'm glad to hear that you made the call and established your rights.

Here's a thought I have had before - there are penalties for violating valid copyrights, but there are no penalties for claiming a copyright that one is not entitled to. I think about it every time I see a piece by London Pro Musica claiming copyright to a piece from 1600, or Schirmer claiming copyright to a piece that John Jacob Niles collected from somebody else in the 1930's.

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 11:18 AM

What/where is your site please?

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 11:40 AM

http://www.btinternet.com/~troubleatmill/conv.htm
But still no pics

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 04:57 PM

Gonna fix your images ever?

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 05:35 AM

The London Pro Musica would probably be copyrighting their arrangement. Any piece from the 1600's would need a lot of editing and arranging to make it playable on modern instruments or even moden reconstructions of 17thC instruments.

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 08:39 AM

No, Manitas, I disagree. Copyright is intended to protect creative effort. Taking someone else's line and printing it a new way is not creative effort.

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:13 AM

If you check in here...
The image files were obviously previously in a directory called 'con_files', for example: http://www.btinternet.com/~troubleatmill/conv_files/conv.gif

When Graham put them back, he put them in his main directory. The image of the converter is at http://www.btinternet.com/~troubleatmill/conv.gif

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 03:25 PM

leenia - there has just been litigation about this. I thinkit may be on its way to the house of Lords. At the moment the winning side includes the medieval experts who can create a possible version of how certain parts might actually have been played since tehy are not scored so as to enable "follow the dots" performance. THe name of the expert will come back to me soon and then I may be able ot do a blue thynge to link tothe judgments

Subject: RE: Chord Converter - BACK ON LINE
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 27 Sep 05 - 06:48 AM

It's not just printing it another way. A lot of work has to be done in editing and scoring as the original as it comes down to us may have printing or transcription errors or may just be unreadable in parts due to age. This is where the creative work and experience comes in.