[Trombone-l] Blazh Clefs and copyright

[Tom Ervin]

Chuck, thanks! Probably I will not scan the Blazhevich Studies in Clefs, not
until I nearly run out of my office inventory, an not unless a student needs
it.

1) Please do let us on the list know when the Blazh Studies in Clefs is ready
for sale.
2) Do you have any updated info on a reprint of his wonderful "26 Sequences?"

And Chuck, let me know if you have any leftovers of Blazh?  ;>)    Joke?

FYI, listers, Hickeys and Chuck are the largest sellers of my "Counterparts,"
 and I am grateful for their support. And yours.

Sure I/we know there's a copyright problem with scanning and sharing Blazhevich.
Worse would be scanning it and selling it. I'd be hurt if folks scanned and
shared my books too, and in fact it has happened a little. And yet, just for a
reality check, there is really NOTHING I can do about this, nothing I can
afford to do.

Likewise there is not much that any copyright holder can afford to do. I
understand this is heresy, and gosh yes I know the list has been over this
ground repeatedly, but copyright enforcement is darn near dead, unless the
theft is both large and damaging.

We can wish it were not so. We can all try to Do The Right Thing. We can
understand that copying makes publishers even more reluctant to invest in a
title. Also we might as well acknowledge what is happening, has happened.

Not that it affects "the right thing to do," but for general knowledge, this
Russian stuff (Soviet stuff) has very interesting copyright history, and I'm
sure I don't know it perfectly. I remember getting my first Blazh Clefs about
1960. I think Jacob Reichman(?) had edited it, and Mills published it(?).
$3.50, I think.

Vladislav B died in 1942. Post WW2 there was like NO trade agreements between
USA and USSR. When some agreements started being negotiated ("a process"), it
was briefly difficult or impossible to find Blazhevich titles as well as some
Shostakovich, Prokofiev, some Stravinsky and many other Russian composers (whom
to pay?). It finally got settled, sorta. Blazhevich wouldn't care, I'm sure.

Big nuisance, though, for professors and their students (The Best Customers),
when a new publisher is slow to issue a book we need. They're not doing the
right thing either, if they just tie it up and don't produce. The Tommy
Pederson titles come to mind.

Now here comes trouble....

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