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What is coming out of comments of persons much more law-trained than me is bringing me to some conclusions. 1. The actual law regarding copyright is easily appliable if we are talking about books. A book physically existing and a copy are two different things. Two files are exactly the same bits. A ...

I dont'think that imslp talks about filtering of the content. That is obviously impossible. I mean: if the composer John Brown is copyrighted by the Whoknows Editions in the Neverneverland country, if the Jown Brown compositions will be linked and hosted on a path like imslp.org/composers/John_Brown...

Hello IMSLP. Your proposal about ISP filtering seems nice but, since there are so many ISP spread all over the world, it would be hard to be applied in the short period, and a day more of closing for IMSLP is a loss for worldwide culture. A question: Since we're talking of Bytes, so all questioning ...

I will expect all those musicians who take issue with UE's stance on this subject to do all the following: Perform for minimal fee and no question of broadcast or recording royalties; Steal their instruments from suppliers; Contact UE's living composers and explain why they think said composers hav...

I totally agree with the librarian open letter. Since I share with him the kind of work, even if for a more limited dimension ensemble, I'd like to point out also another aspect of the matter: you don't need sheet music just to play it. I'll give you an example: very often, I write CD reviews for ma...

VIvaldi, I think you didn't got the message. I have the highest respect for Dover. Dover offers a plusvalue with respect to imslp and so they want some money to cover the extra expenses (print, etc) and this is clear and logical. What I mean is that Dover offer the same material that is available on...

Maybe I'm totally wrong, but all the pieces listed in the UE list are sounding a little bit too familiar to my ears. All, or almost all, the pieces which are under cross check in between IMSLP and UE are also into the catalogue of Dover publications, which has into its catalogue the same reproductio...