Musopen Recording Project

[horndude77]

An interesting project to create public domain recordings: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Mus ... copyrights

[BKhon]

Interesting... and this is to suggest the possibility of putting these recordings on IMSLP? Interesting... I see no immediate problems with that. Of course, I don't think the recordings would be public domain. They would probably be under a creative commons license. But copyright law in terms of recording is a little strange (wasn't covered until 1972), so I'm not too familiar with the terminology.

[KGill]

Yes, they would be put under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 if they were uploaded here. In some countries it's actually impossible to release works by living people into the public domain.

[horndude77]

Creative Commons has been exploring other licences in order to get as close to public domain as possible for those countries (see http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). I don't think they're suggesting general use for it yet though.

[Carolus]

I noticed one thing on MusOpen that is alarming from a copyright standpoint: The performance by the Skidmore Orchestra of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is of the Ravel orchestration - which is still very much under copyright in the USA. Although a performance of extremely dubious quality, I am a nonetheless little surprised that the ASCAP gang hasn't noticed.