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All of this may be true, but it still begs the question that, with so few works in question, why take on the copyright morass and kill the site in the process. A volunteer-driven service website is not the forum for serious copyright reform. Also, consider that a Canadian court may so rule, but oth...

Wishing the whole word were under Canada’s copyright laws – even though the host site may be in Canada, the act of placing works on the Internet is an International act. By making a work, no matter how legal in one’s own country, downloadable in a country where it is still in copyright means that t...

I've actually considered what this would take before, and I suspect that, with PGDP's current setup, it wouldn't require extraordinary changes to do a Lilypond section (I have done some small research in this area, although it's been quite some time). As a related example, I have seen Lilypond inte...

Project Gutenberg has its Distributed Proofreaders project, (http://www.pgdp.net/), which allows people to fix OCR problems, or transcribe hard to OCR pages on line, one-page-at-a-time. We have been experimenting with music, but this has mainly been limited to small excerpts found in various books. ...

The question is: do we want to try to make more precise legal information available to the non-Canadian users, in order to prevent anybody to hurt IMSLP (and I don't think that's enforcing EU law in Canada, as long as it's only information ); if we don't, we should even delete the information that ...

Thanks for the long discussion, littlefred. However, I think Wikipedia's guidelines are way too restrictive. They work from the longest copyright term (Mexico's shameful life+100), and don't allow you to upload anything newer as public domain. Maybe they try to be helpful to users, and protect them ...

I already heard what you said about the German soldier, etc. (and I think some people in France uses that argument to do some copyfraud.) But EU harmonization explicitly said that special national laws like wartime extentions were not applicable to other EU countries, nor to other nationals. 'Died ...

Mickey Mouse shirts would remain property of Disney regardless of new legislation for it is used as a Trade Mark (which they pay for). However it is the early cartoons of Mickey Mouse which were becoming PD. Trademark control goes much less far than copyright, as the law regulates a trademarks used...

What I have to do to claim copyright is significantly alter it, if I just reproduce it without change, I cannot claim copyright. Otherwise all the published pdf's are copyrighted by their respective scanners, and I'm quite sure they're not. Unfortunately, you need to alter nothing to claim copyrigh...

In Italy a new retypesetting , that is like the original (urtext) without adding a slur is protected for 25 years. All kind of new printed editions are protected for 25 years. I don't now in other nations.... Greetings Carmar Some countries (to mind come the UK) have these kind of restrictions on t...

I disagree, somewhat. I think bifurcating is an excellent idea, but I think that both entities should have as much material as each can, and share what they can between them, mostly because that way, if one goes down, we don't lose half (or more?) of the archive. This could be solved by having a li...

miguelm97 wrote:In the first page footnote you can see that the work is copyrighted by UE.

You may be enlighted by reading this article on copyfraud:

http://www.law.nyu.edu/JOURNALS/LAWREVI ... nyu303.pdf

If a single individual or organization is doing this, this would establish quite clearly that you are playing the system to evade law. With the exception of the shareholders and the corporations (who would use any excuse regardless of morality or the truth), it is more likely to be seen as giving f...

Whatever you say. But I _have_ got some experience of working in businesses, over the years, and I just think you guys are being unnecessarily paranoid, and unprepared to admit to simple lack of experience in general. Doesn't really show the Public Domain advocates in a very good light to the rest ...

Building such a complicated system would actually be an implicit acknowledgment that you are liable for copyrights in other jurisdictions. Better not do it. The only reasonable thing to do is to stay strictly within Canadian (or any other) jurisdiction you are actually in. For the database structure...