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Hyperion maintained that the editions were not original compositions and therefore were not subject to copyright, and further that
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and a music editor, said: "All the music I perform has to be edited, or we couldn't read it. But copyright should be there to reward creativity, not scholarship or diligence. How much an editor did or did not write should never be asked and judged during a million-pound lawsuit involving a small and
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