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Hey - would it be possible to use the twitter account to put out a request for people to help out on the Sibley Project and provide a link to the forum topic about it? ( http://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5945 ) It seems that would be a source for our most devoted followers and we could ...

I would be glad to help, but the public-domain-ness of the few scores I have examined is obscure! Example http://hdl.handle.net/1802/4714 does not have "PD-US only" in this list. The composer Rudolf Friml (1879 - 1972) is probably PD-US only. And the page says Copyright © This item is pro...

Since we've gained a lot of new members with the WIMA merger I thought I'd take the opportunity to seek/beg/implore/request/etc anyone who would be willing to help upload files from the Sibley Music Library to IMSLP. It is very easy and we've made a lot of progress but there is a huge backlog that c...

Holy Smokes! So it looks like about 1000 slipped through. It turns out there are 914 files that are properly tagged with "sibleyscan/1802/xxxx" but that were uploaded without the sibley wizard numbering system as part of the file name so they were missed the first time around. I'm updating...

Files like that example were missed the first time because they were not uploaded with the file name containing "Sibley1802.xxxxx." I'm going to try a different way of pulling every file from IMSLP that has the "sibleyscan" tag in the wiki syntax and then run it against a full li...

Hey Aldona - A while ago I went through and manually found and edited the "scanned by" tag for every Sibley file uploaded from 2006-2009 that wasn't properly done (or whenever it was that the upload format was standardized) but it looks like there are still a few I've missed. In any case, ...

Just wanted to let anyone who cares know that the Sibley Links page is now current up to 18,000 (currently the Sibley library is at 18,150 or so) so please be sure to delete the entries there when you're uploading. I had the program remove everything from the list that had already been uploaded so t...

Not sure if this was missed or if there's a mysterious reason why it's blocked:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Carmen_Fantasie_% ... n%C3%B6%29

that won't really make a difference because files have to be PD in both the US and Canada for them to be made available on IMSLP (because IMSLP is technically headquartered in the US). There isn't a Canada-only server like there is for US-only or EU-only. So even if a Canadian downloaded the files t...

ok - that legal disclaimer makes sense. I upload so many files that I don't even notice it's there any more :) I wasn't really suggesting paper documenting - just curious how we were covered for works that are not PD and the legal disclaimer makes that pretty clear. I know the recent decision Google...

unless Reccmo can comment on WIMA's process for checking these things? Well, I just don't think it's enough to take WIMA's word on things. If something is on IMSLP it needs to be properly vetted because if someone sends us papers we can't say "oh but WIMA said it was fine." In the particu...

This issue came up on another post but I thought it deserved it's own topic just so everyone is aware. Some WIMA works that users are uploading of their own contain or may contain text from copyright sources and the uploaders may not be aware that they have to get permission to use non-PD texts in t...

I assume that if Frederic Rzewski had permission to publish the text on WIMA and keep it there - it's a major site, after all - then it will not pose a copyright issue to us. The librettist for that work was a Guatemalan Revolutionary Poet who died in 1963. I highly doubt the composer has permissio...

We may run into copyright issues with some of these WIMA pieces - specifically songs with text. I just saw a piece that is available for download with text that is still under copyright:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Apolitical_Intell ... rederic%29

Just FYI...

Thanks for your help, jemiller226! It gets lonely sometimes working through those links and it's nice to have some company! Like they told you, they probably don't have anyway to know which are restricted and which aren't, so I would just make a note on the link list page after whatever link you com...