On 17 January 2012 21:02, PMA <peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu> wrote: > > Your last sentence here hits on *the* issue in my original post. > Why indeed would I...? But it seems that, to post on ISMLP/ > WIMA, one *must* commit to public-domain-like status.
I wish that was true!! As a Free Culture supporter I hope one day these more and more restrictive and always longer copyright laws will be "re-equilibrated". Copyright "protection" does not *effectively* protect the author, but rather ensure a huge money income to a few, referred as "majors" or "publishers", *living on the back* of these authors (which, most of them, usually are all but rich). Do people really realize that copyright "protection" lasts almost a century *after the death of the author* ?! I am referring to "Free Culture" as in "Free Software", which means allowing everyone to copy, modify, redistribute and share the culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement http://freedomdefined.org So I wish IMSLP would contain and accept *only* "public-domain-like" (or free as defined above) materials. But it is not true. If you read carefully the guidelines to contribute works on IMSLP, you will see that Permitted Licenses for Original or Copyrighted Compositions include all the Creative Commons licenses, even the ones forbidding commercial use or modifications, but also the totally restrictive "Performance Restricted Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 1.0 (pr-by-nc-nd)" license, that forbid actually almost every use of the work. http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_and_Performance_Restricted_licenses I was first pleased to see WIMA merge with IMSLP but then I was sad when I saw that IMSLP made an exception and additionally allow the CC-NC and CC-NC-SA licenses even for (Re)Typesets of *public domain works* ! http://icking-music-archive.org/IMSLP/IMSLP.php > I would like, of course, to find a (major, well run) public archive > without such constraints. So you want volunteers to provide YOU *free of charge* public archive but you are not willing to grant anyone a single right to use the work you post on such site? Hopefully people who invented/use free licenses, for cultural works for instance, or people developing/contributing to free softwares such as GNU/Linux or… LilyPond did not think the same way! Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
