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Alfred , by Thomas Arne and from which "Rule, Britannia!" comes from, was published by Musica Britannica in 1981. This publication contains all surviving music edited as an urtext edition. The editor collaged the different libretti availiable to present the most complete version of the op...

Tomaso Albinoni's Op. 8 ( Sei Baletti e Sonate per due Violini, Violoncello e basso continuo ) is on the wishlist and the music library at my university has several urtext editions of it. I am in the US and I would like to upload these scores. I am not sure of how the copyright works for them, espec...

First, I want to say that I am a subscribing member to IMSLP. Every organization that IMSLP has been compared to on this thread has one very important thing that it doesn't: financial transparency. For a non-profit (which IMSLP should be, but that can come at a later time), financial statements are ...

IMSLP should be the equivalent of an American 501c3 (non-profit) and should publish financial information. Being a non-profit will help with donations and I think that it simply makes sense given IMSLP's goals. Financial transparency will give confidence to subscribers and people who give donations ...

The fact that it is considered an "insult" to the music world that IMSLP does not have financial stability shows the importance of IMSLP, importance that one should be able to leverage for donations. Again, nothing as far as I can tell is known about IMSLP's financials. If you, Edward, cou...

I am also troubled by the recent changes made to IMSLP. While I am nowhere near a prolific contributor, I am a frequent user of IMSLP. Days where I do not look at least one score on the site are few and far between. In addition to its value to performers, many musicologists like me, as well as compo...