Pending Copyright Review [B]

[Plattypus]

Hiya, I was wondering if there was any particular order in which the reviews are being done? I realise there are over 1000, I just wondered if you were prioritising in any way.
Thanks very much

[Peter]

In short: no

Or actually, at least in my case, the ones that have easy identifiable information go first, most of the times I'm too lazy for the hard ones.

[ashaam]

and why are roussel's works still blocked?

[pml]

Many of Roussel's works were first published after 1923, so they fall foul of the US' 95 year copyright. A quick sampling of some of the works showed most of the copyright tags that imposed a block were because of non-PD status in the US - regards, Philip

[Quarknugget]

I think just about all of the Joplin rags are under review. Were these published after 1923? Because on other websites I heard that most of his works are in the public domain. I really want them up!

[Carolus]

We just haven't gotten to that particular section yet. Actually, I did clear a few not too long ago.

[Melodia]

As far as I know, all of Joplin's music is PD except for Silver Swan Rag.

Actually I was wondering, does the system actually check somehow where you are, or are ones that say, for instance, V/25/V still locked out for everyone?

[vinteuil]

I think It blocks it for everyone - I asked about an IP adress recognition system a while ago - that would cut down on legal liability as well as making things more accessible (and maybe the Canadian Urtext law could be used then too - free urtexts (not for me though...)!)

[Leonard Vertighel]

IP address based geolocation has been discussed over and over in the forums. I suggest that you do a search. In short, if IMSLP was responsible for the enforcement of the copyright laws of every user's country, if would mean having to keep track of the copyright laws of some 200 sovereign countries in the world, a task which is perfectly impossible without a huge team of legal experts. Besides, geolocation is absolutely trivial to circumvent.

[Carolus]

Leonard is 100% correct. The only way IMSLP would be able to afford a law firm to keep track of 200 constantly changing copyright laws around the world, plus the considerable expense of software capable of such filtering, would be if we charged money for each download.

That's not going to happen, since the whole purpose of this endeavor is to make the scores available at no charge.

Back to the Joplin scores, they've all been reviewed and approved.