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Arne, Handel, Walsh, and Music as Intellectual Property: Two Eighteenth-Century Lawsuits

1995; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 120; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/02690403.1995.11828226

1471-6933

Ronald Jay Rabin, Steven Zohn,

Musicology and Musical Analysis

In 1773 Johann Christian Bach filed a bill of complaint in Chancery for breach of musical copyright, initiating what was to become a landmark case in British copyright law. Bach claimed that the publishing firm of Longman, Lukey & Co. had brought out unauthorized editions of two of his compositions: a ‘new lesson for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte’ and a ‘new Sonata’ for keyboard and viola da gamba.