minstrel: Wah! Composer's block!

[Holly]

At 08:11 AM 7/19/2004 -0400, Fred wrote:
>Can melodies be copyrighted?  If so, then there's more wrong with
>copyright law than I thought.

Why do you say that?  Do you think that composers (those who write using 
music) should be afforded less protection and fewer rights than lyricists 
(those who write with words) or book authors?

Linette de Gallardon,
sorry to participate in the opening of the can o'worms, but it needed to be 
responded to....