minstrel: Child's Ballads

[Tadhg O Cuileannain]

David--

The Child books are quite unambiguously in the public domain and have been for decades.
I suppose someone who produced a new edition might make some kind of intellectual
property claim to the layout and design of the book, but they still could not claim any
rights to the content.  Anyone can produce a new edition of Child any time they wish, in
any format they wish, just as they can with Shakespeare or Chaucer or Mark Twain.   So go
ahead and copy.

Tadhg

david ball wrote:

> A belated thank you to all who offered help and information. I am really
> still at the stumbling about in the dark stage of my learning of period
> music. It is a shame that the Child books are not more easily available. I
> heard rumors that a "facsimile" copy was available somewhere. Does anyone
> know what the copyright implications would be to buying such a copy, and
> then typing it into a CD/computer version? It would be nice to have the
> option of hearing some of the 100 tunes while reading the words. Similar
> work is being done with sword manuals on another group I belong to. Anyone
> know where I can get such a facsimile version? Could I copy a later print
> version as the words are from the older edition?
>
> David Falcone
>