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If EU law applies in Canada, then Canadian law must also apply in the EU... right? Just to give this a bit of an extra push: If EU law applies in Canada, then Canadian law must also apply in the EU... right? I'd love to see PI (or anyone else who thinks that Canada's laws don't matter here) give th...

The Dover example above is wrong. Even Dover could not sell scores of the works in question in the EU, unless they license them from UE. They can't provide the service in the EU, they don't have the right to do so. You can by the score elsewhere and bring it home, but in that case you may violate s...

It really doesn't matter which is the "right" law, or the "fair" law. The site did its best to follow the laws of the country it was hosted in. Until there is some sort of universal mandate on exactly WHAT law online sites have to follow, the only way at the moment is to go with ...

Blouis79, as others implied, WHY should IMSLP have to respect the death+7p, when it was hosted in Canada where the law is death+50? Again, I cite Dover scores. Stravinsky, for instance, isn't even PD in Canada, much less Austria/Germany, yet anyone online can buy a copy of The Firebird, no matter wh...

I just have to ask, if you're reading this, UE person. The material was legal in Canada. Do you deny this? If so, then do go around sending C&D letters to Dover? After all, anyone could easily imported their books with very little difficulty. I'm sure their Stravinsky scores of The Firebird, Rit...

You obviously never payed much attention to the rules of the site -- being 1945 -- over 50 years ago -- his music falls into the PD in CANADA, where the material was hosted (in addition, there's much of his music published before 1923, which falls under the pre-1923 US copyright law).

-Lala-

A good start would be the ones that reported it. Some references in the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... ry_Project


-Lala-