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Actually, I do have a good degree of sympathy for UE's position in all this, just not for the approach taken. It isn't enough for them to go through the site looking for the scores that they own rights to, and neither should they have to spend time effort and money in so doing. The problem is that w...

As a publisher we wonder why the owner of this website did not ask for a cooperation instead of acting as living in a world without copyright law by giving away for free things that he simply does not own. ... Universal Edition AG Vienna The answer to your question is simple if you look at the thre...

I don't think you are wrong, and I think that U-E is just protecting it's interests (and who can blame them for that). That they're coming on really that strong is a testament to how threatened they feel by the internet. In another post on the subject elsewhere though I've pointed out lost opportuni...

I can't say where U-E is coming from in all this, but they're not the first to be going after internet based portals. Publishers of all manner of materials have been worried for years about competition from the internet. Let's face it, it's cheap, fast, and you can't directly control it. The likes o...