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The parts are, to be frank, not good. I would not want to be the librarian who chose to hand this out to even an amateur orchestra.

That's what I thought. Someone might want to remove the Non-PD US tag from that scan, then.

I'm speaking of this work , not the more well known Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Based on this post and others, I am led to believe that the manuscript should be PD-US but it is explicitly marked Non-PD US. This has to be an error, correct? There is no method by which a manuscript from 1822 could po...

It's been MONTHS. Does anyone still pay attention here?

It depends on a few things for US copyright: 1. Was it registered in Catalogue of Copyright Entries as Unpublished Work? (If so, when? This applies with 2a-c) 2. If possibly published, when? 2a. If published (in any form) before or in 1963, check if it's renewed. 2b. If first published in 1964-2003...

Where exactly are they broken? The Link List pages? See my comment from August 28: https://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=49853#p49853 For what it's worth, the method of adding a new scan by dragging the "cite" URL onto the new scan dialog as per IMSLP:AddFile doesn't seem to work anymor...

Thanks for keeping this project organized, I’d like to help out with mirroring, especially with the PD-everywhere files. I think a small group of dedicated contributors could really make a dent in the backlog if we coordinate and avoid uploading editions already present on IMSLP. Also, an automated...

I understand that "questionable" is fine in the absence of something better, but yes, as DBMiller suggests, these files are actively harmful to anyone trying to perform the piece. Thankfully this wasn't one I ran into myself, but a librarian friend of mine in another orchestra did. He had ...

There's a set of parts on Ottorino Respighi's Vetrate di chiesa that are bad enough to be unusable. I don't mean "these look bad" but rather "they're full of errors, mislabeled parts, missing sections, etc." I know at least at some point in the past we could go to each file and a...

For what it's worth, the method of adding a new scan by dragging the "cite" URL onto the new scan dialog as per IMSLP:AddFile doesn't seem to work anymore. It times out with the following error:

Error: Sibley page download failure, error #28.

Can someone confirm definitively that this piece is PD-US? The page is marked as such, but the manuscript is undated and I'm reading articles suggesting that she wrote the piece in 1943, which would mean it's almost certainly not public domain in the States unless, I suppose, the manuscript itself i...

Connection refused. Usually that's either nothing listening (i.e. the web server isn't running at all, usually due to a process crash) or a firewall setting blocking traffic. I wouldn't panic until someone higher up the food chain here says that we should.

I'm curious as to the public domain status of Idyla in the United States. The only sheets on IMSLP were published in the 1950s; wouldn't that have to be region-locked and only opened to the US if a manuscript or similar were found?

A friend of mine tipped me off to the above-mentioned piece, and it seems as though there's no copyright renewal information for it in 1957, '58. or '59. Can we safely assume that this piece was essentially forgotten and left to fall into the public domain in the US?

Just playing devil's advocate here, but who checks the user-submitted, user-created typesets for accuracy now? I fail to see how this would be any different, in either that way or the license issue.