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If these Schubert autograph manuscripts, sketches and letters are out of copyright, shouldn't they be PD and be free of charge? Granted, each page is scanned and perhaps digitally enhanced and service and labour charges are applied. But for 8 euros per page? And at only 300dpi? The same thing occur...

Peter wrote:look here

It doesn't do it justice... it was far prettier than I'm getting from the wayback machine.

Would it be possible to establish a newsletter, that informs the subscribers, when imslp.org is online again? You can be sure it will be announced here and on every outlet I have access to (er... my blog and the lilypond list :-) ), and I'm sure others will be vocal as well. That said, an announcem...

The introduction letter explaining the taking down of the site initially scared me, but I know have a slight understanding that all the files are on a harddrive somewhere and online the connection between the internet and the server is off right? Once the connection is reestablished everything come...

This is another good reason for IMSLP to set up as a non-profit corporation. If we had a reasonable budget, volumes like these could be purchased, carefully disbound, scanned, rebound and resold at a reduced price (as "used") at Abebooks, Amazon Marketplace, etc. And IMSLP could potential...

I don't know what the site looked like previous to the takedown. Would you like it if I designed a drupal site for this? The site previously used Mediawiki software; I think the plan is to continue with the same (although there were several project working on prettifying the mediawiki templates and...

Also, I'm fairly certain that none of us are lawyers (especially not copyright lawyers), so you should probably not take any advice as legal advice.

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miscelena wrote:perhaps he commissioned it? Is that sort of thing done with music?

Yes; I've played several pieces that had been commissioned for another orchestra or person and then widely published.

If you are still looking at purchasing, I would highly recommend Dover's edition: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486233766.html. With shipping and handling, probably around $25 for all 6.

Copyrightholders regularly complain about lack of respect for copyright. While disrespecting it themselves through copyfraud and outright lies about copyright. The same copyright holders also sometimes plead for widespread and compulsory education about copyright. However, if such copyright educati...

+5 Insightful, Peter and Carolus.

Now, how do we get them to recognize, understand and come to terms with this? (And maybe even help to change the system, you never know)

Well... 3.b of CC-BY says, [...]Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work as stated below:[...] to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, includ...

And, again, there were no 'copyright issues'; just harassment.