Transcription advice

Hi there, I have recently been asked to transcribe a piece of music (that does not exist in print already) and I have been paid for this service.

This was requested by an individual and not a company.

I would like to make the transcription available to buy, and th amount I would be charging would be less than what I charged the other person as it was a commission, ie, it was requested from me and not a planned project by myself.

I just wanted to know if people had any idea whether I would be within my rights, as author of the transcription, to do this?

Any advice woulde be great.

Cheers

...my rights, as author of the transcription

I expect you have no rights as pertaining to your transcription - since you neither wrote, nor arranged the piece.

Care to identify the piece?? Perhaps it's in the public domain...

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Anyway.

Transcriptions are informal. If the piece you transcribed is copyrighted, you definitely have no right to offer it commericially, that's the soul of copyright. Solo transcriptions may be different, I don't know. If you don't know exactly what "solo transcription" is, then you probably don't know what I'm talking about so forget it.

If the piece is PD, then the guy you did the favor of transcribing it is within his rights to publish it wherever he wishes (IMSLB for example).

That's not to say you don't deserve to be compensated for your time of transcribing the work for your guy.

to add to Peter: Solo transcriptions are also copyrighted. In short: You may only spread it, if it's PD.

to add to Peter: Solo transcriptions are also copyrighted. In short: You may only spread it, if it's PD.

Not to derail the thread, but are the the solos copyrighted as a part of the work, or are the solo transcriptions copyrighted?

they are independently copyrighted to the soloist.

Oh and by the way, HymnSpace (and this is important): If the work is NOT PD, you're not allowed to make a transcription. Paid or unpaid, except for when you have an explicit agreement with the copyright holder