Thoughts and positions

i would say that even Jacques Berthier is just one of thousand of plagiarists of this melody because it is known from Renaissance! i have it in a score of renaissance pieces and later will tell you the author's name if i would be able to find it out of a mass of scores i have.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me. It does sound much older, doesn't it?

I'm not sorry I said anything, though. Like it or not, Berthier's estate has the copyright on it now.

Like it or not, Berthier's estate has the copyright on it now.

uh..... i understand .... but i guess that if someone would submit the case to a court of justice he would have to give up his abusive pretensions on a tune in public domain from centuries are you sure about? i guess that he could just have copyright over his post-work on the tune, and not on it itself.

are you sure about? i guess that he could just have copyright over his post-work on the tune, and not on it itself.

Actually, if you'll follow the link I posted in my original comment, it is the Taize Community that owns the copyright. But there the music is, in black and white, with Bertier's name on it. I'm not making this stuff up. Why would I?

Are you actually referring to the tune itself, or the the ground bass it was written on? That ground bass is indeed many centuries old, and it has been used for many a similar set of variations (passacaglia, etc.) over the years.

Here is the link again: http://www.taize.fr/en_article463.html