Editing Ex Cathedra (section)

===Hyperion lawsuit===
In 2001, Ex Cathedra recorded four works by Michel-Richard de Lalande for Hyperion Records. The sessions used editions prepared by scholar Lionel Sawkins. Sawkins went on to sue Hyperion for royalties arising from his claimed [[copyright]] in the editions.<ref name="Sawkins v Hyperion HC">{{cite BAILII|litigants=Sawkins v. Hyperion Records Limited|court=EWHC|division=Ch|year=2004|num=1530|courtname=auto}}.</ref> The recording was issued but subsequently withdrawn from the market after Sawkins won the lawsuit and subsequent appeal.<ref>{{citation|author=Terry Grimley|title=Facing the music: ... [H]ow a prestigious project turned sour for Birmingham baroque ensemble Ex Cathedra|newspaper=Birmingham Post|date=10 July 2004}}.</ref><ref name=Guardian>{{citation|author=Ed Vulliamy|title=£1m legal bill rocks a musical institution: Classical record firm at risk after court defeat; Bill for copyright action a 'self-inflicted wound'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/23/arts.artsnews|newspaper=The Guardian|date=23 December 2005}}.</ref> 

Upon Hyperion's appeal, the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] held on 19 May 2005 that Sawkins owned the copyright in his modern performing editions of the de Lalande music, even though de Lalande's music itself was out of copyright.<ref>{{cite BAILII|litigants=Hyperion Records Limited v. Sawkins|court=EWCA|division=Civ|year=2005|num=565|parallelcite=[2005] 1 W.L.R. 3281|courtname=auto}}.</ref> The decision was not welcomed by all. Peter Phillips, the director of the [[Tallis Scholars]] and a music editor himself, 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 upon during a million-pound lawsuit involving a small and innovative recording company."<ref name=Guardian/>