Re: Hava Nagilah Rights

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

We had a discussion about this subject a few years ago.  In a book 
written by one of his students, Nathanson is put forth as the author of 
the lyrics for Hava Nagila, written when he was around 10 and himself a 
student of Idelsohn, as I remember.  This "fact" is in dispute.
Lorele

Joshua Horowitz wrote:

>The tune of Hava Nagila was collected by Idelssohn, not penned by him. If my
>memory is correct, he called it a Nign from Sadigora (Ukraine). If someone
>reprinted the exact original lead sheet of the publisher, Friedrich
>Hofmeister, Leipzig  1932 (?) they would be infringing upon the "mechanical"
>rights. But the tune itself (falling under intellectual rights) is public
>domain, meaning anyone can publish it using different fonts, etc and can
>record, arrange and defile. There is often confusion about the difference of
>mechanical rights and intellectual rights, and most of us get lost in this.
>Josh Horowitz
>
>>At 09:46 AM 4/18/02, ALANEFALK (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
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>>>check out SongFile.com - the website of the Harry Fox Agengy - they take care
>>>of all ASCAP song rights. A quick check on my part shows that Hava Nagilah
>>>does have copyright protection.
>>>http://www.songfile.com/
>>>
>>A particular =arrangement= of the song may have copyright protection, but
>>the tune definitely does not.
>>
>>_____________________________________________________________
>>Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
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