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No one has a right to "own" the rights to a piece of music. It's like trying to say you own the air. Absurd! Copyright laws should prohibit copy and resale NOT copy and freesale. Please come back IMSLP! You have my support No. This notion is absolutely absurd. Copyright is now too long in...

It is common practice in China. Sadly, it is increasingly common elsewhere as well, and it happens often enough to warrant projects like Tor and Freenet. Be glad that it isn't a common practice where you live. Please provide proof of this sort of thing happening in China. I'll probably be able to s...

It is manifestly not IMSLP's responsibility to enforce EU copyright upon the entire world. Putting $10 in a tip jar is not volunteering to fund a complex filtering mechanism whereby visitors from the EU would be limited to downloading only those titles which are public domain in the EU. That's basi...

Attempting to enforce copyright laws across borders equals "mangling" packets between nations. No. You're arguing like this is common practice. No one does this. I'm sorry, but no. There's this company called Cisco, and their entire business model revolves around selling customers equipme...

National carriers have no obligation to data packets, regardless of origin or destination. Go ask China. I'm not saying discrimination is the right thing to do, but sovereignty of national laws means that localities have a right to mangle imported or exported data however they wish. Except this isn...

Note that Project Gutenberg claims it is *only* beholden to US copyright law. I suspect that would be easily defeated if seriously challenged.

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all they have to do is to deny the access to this path to any user connected through the specific ISP (which is supposed to be a citizen from Neverneverland, being a foreigner present in the country or a foreigner dialing the isp from abroad will be obliged to compy to neverneverland laws). Technic...

I have to disagree with this. Local ISPs HAVE to import and transmit the material into the country in question. That is what they do, as ISPs. But they don't cause it to be transmitted, that's the client and remote server doing that. If some data enters a country on leased lines of an international...

imslp, I side with your arguments against the cease-and-desist nonsense leveled against this site, but there are many problems, assumptions, and general innaccuracies in your post: In fact, to follow up with my previous post, there are many good things about having the filter at the ISP: 1. The ISPs...

Blouis, I appreciate the discourse, btw. People don't have to be bullied if they know their rights. One of the issues is that effectively the rights are not concrete in the following sense: If the publisher chose to persue this directly in Canada it may be a quick and relatively affordable dismissal...

It seems to me it is the attacks on Universal Edition which are outrageous. The letter from UE's lawyers, reproduced on the imslp website, seems perfectly reasonable. Many publishers, UE certainly included in my experience, provide excellent support for composers living _and dead_ and have a perfec...

In Canada where the material is physically hosted, there was no breach. That appears not to be true for one artist - J Marx who apparently died in 1964. Thanks for the correction, you are correct! These materials should just have been removed. Therefore the IMSLP is good to go *immediately* when: A...

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. This is simply an outrageous, and factually incorrect, assertion - sadly typical of the type ...

Further, we would expect other publishers to act similarly if there is breach of copyright. In Canada where the material is physically hosted, there was no breach. Therefore the IMSLP is good to go *immediately* when: A. Works of the UE Artists are removed. B. Some system is in place to prevent add...