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Blouis79 wrote:Nothing to do with when they were born.

See legal information thread for more.

There may, in some countries, be a provision for presuming the term of copyright based on the birth date of an author, when the death date is unknown. However, that is not the case in Canadian law.

ArcticWind7 wrote:WJM and PI:

Please edit your posts rather than double posting, there is not need to create another post.

AW7

I know what "double posting" means. Do you? I haven' t "double posted".

Richard Black wrote:Well, since life+70 years covers the vast majority of the classical-music-downloading world

Vast majority?

Have you quantified this? How?

Peter wrote:If you find a way to quickly sort the 15000 files by copyright status, please let us know.

According to the copyright law of which of nearly 200 countries?

UE is struggling for their income. And to do this they demanded a few things which they had the right to claim - in the EU - and several other things which they have no right to claim, not even in EU. The latter part is a clear case of copyfraud. Other than one composer who died less than 50 years ...

No thanks?!? If a composer who 'died in 1960' wrote beautiful music for us to enjoy pre-1923, shouldn't we still be eager to send a bit of our monies toward his/her family who undoubtedly still own the pub. rights to his/her compositions? Not in the United States. And on, it is not "undoubtabl...

PI wrote:Noone will enforce Mexican copyright law for works distributed in Austria. But Austrian laws do apply there.

No, they do not.

Mexican law applies in Mexico.

Austrian law applies in Austria.

And Canadian law applies in Canada.

In any case there's only the law of one country: the country where you distribute the music. That is, the country where the end user is sitting. Mexico will not prevent you from distributing Bartók in Canada. But you can't do that in Mexico or in Austria. You can choose not to offer the service the...

ou are right, IMSLP is the best online public domain sheet music site. I wonder why is it down now?? Why don't the admins just temporarily block the mentioned composers and leave the rest (>90%?) of the site running until an IP based filtering system is implemented? For starters, because there is n...

That's exactly the point I'm hammering here, but some people just can't get off the "but the server is in Canada" horse. That is the only relevant "horse". The server is your warehouse that's where things get shipped FROM. Unless Canada is under an embargo in the destination cou...

Gowers Review (UK) makes the case against term extension, at least in respect of recordings. (The horse is already out of the life+70 barn for compositions in the UK)

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/E ... rt_755.pdf

...except that it IS called the INTERNATIONAL music score library project... therefore copyright laws of all countries should be observed. No. And in any event, how do you do that when "all countries" have contradictory copyright laws? There are countries which have "domaine public p...

PI wrote:That was their intent, see the letters: Place of jurusdiction: Vienna.

Good luck with that, when the person and server of interest is in another continent.

Canadian law, not Austrian, applies.

It IS in Europe, as the service is available there. In which case a European server IS in Canada. And therefore, European companies MUST give me material which is public domain under Canadian law. Right? Yes. A Mexican publisher could sue a European organization distributing public domain scores in...

UE made perfectly reasonable requests in a perfectly reasonable way and in doing so showed evidence of a willingness to discuss stuff in a cordial way. No, it did not. It is not reasonable to expect the laws of one country to apply in another. Attempting to pursue this unreasonable course of action...