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Hmm...I'm a bit confused then on the contents of the Malherbe/Weingartner edition, because although I've not personally seen them, Kalmus has reprinted this edition and the records I've seen indicates 25 volumes where vol.24 is Benvenuto Cellini. Looking at another record of the original printing by...

And so I take it that any scores published post-1982 would not be public domain in Germany according to Section 70? As I'm not familiar with the NBE project, was it completed before 1982? If not I would be more inclined to continue scanning and archiving the old Breitkopf edition in order to have a ...

Is this New Berlioz Edition considered public domain because it represents (or supposedly?) an urtext? Also, I was wondering if anyone had/knew of scans or at least the table of contents for the old berlioz works edition published by B&H. I was going to, hopefully sometime this year, complete al...

I'm afraid it is not public domain in any country of the world due to Poulenc's death in 1963 and that the concerto for 2 pianos was written in 1932 and first published by Salabert in 1933. Had it been published before 1923 it would have been public domain, but only in the US.

Why not post the PDF and the .SIB file? I'm sure this wouldn't be a problem.

I'd like to propose a new project for the contributors of IMSLP: the completion of the Sibelius works list to go live on the site when January 1st of next year rolls around. I was thinking something along the lines of each person who wishes to volunteer and has access to a library or other medium of...

Indeed. You can never be too neurotic about backing up files, ESPECIALLY in our situation.

Oh so you're one of the ones whose been snatching my scans and uploading them! :D A year or so ago I used to share out my whole collection (almost all of which were scans I made from my own or rented scores) on emule until something/someone happened which caused it to erase everything. Since then on...

We scan them from the printed music in most cases--some of us have large personal collections and some are students at Universities/Colleges where they borrow scores from their libraries.
As for the Brahms quartet, put it on the request page (wishlist).

2007:
Gerald Finzi
Reyngol'd Moritsevich [Reinhold Glière] Glier
2008:
Joseph Canteloube
Jean Sibelius
Erich Korngold
2009:
Eugène Goossens
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Florent Schmitt
2010:
Ernest Bloch
Bohuslav Martinů
Heitor Villa-Lobos

Does anyone know of a complete arrangement of Holst's Planets for solo piano, much less one in PD?

Yes I second what everyone else has said. Profound thanks to both Feldmahler and Carolus for the current and future work! I'm certainly very proud to be a contributing member to such a great organization, if just in a small way.

Carolus or someone else, if you have any free time (which I'm sure is scarce for you) could you check over my shoulder regarding the status of copyrights on Czech composer and Czech-published pieces? I understand only from the public domain page that government publications, such as those by Supraph...

Yes, quite. What I meant was if a clarification of this sort could be included on the public domain page here: http://imslp.org/wiki/Public_domain.

Would it be possible to better illustrate/explain first publication copyright by specifically giving a scenario such as even if a composer died more than 50 (or 70) years ago but the piece was first published less than 50 years ago it is still under copyright. After re-reading the explanation page o...