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According to William G. Witt, copyright officer for Harvard's Office for Sourcebook Publications, price watchers shouldn't be surprised that sourcebook costs have set a new record...
...copyright fees charged by publishing companies--which are responsible for most of the sourcebooks' high prices--have been on an upward trend for the last four years, Witt said...
Witt traced the high prices to a proliferation of requests for copyright permissions after Kinko's Copies lost a $1.5 million copyright infringement lawsuit several years ago. Kinko's had made millions of copies for sourcebooks without getting permission...
Publishing companies were, in turn, forced to enlarge their staffs to process these copyright requests. And that added to the cost and prompted firms to increase the fees they charge to reproduce copyrighted material, Witt said...
...analysis is always illuminating and expert; however, nonmusical readers may have trouble following his arguments, illustrated as they are by plentiful examples from scores. There are tantalizing references to such lost works as a symphony, a piano concerto and the opera A Guest of Honor, which was registered for copyright in 1903, although no copy of the score is known to exist...