Hello, just now I tried arround with Johns your tune-finder, because I wanted to recomend it to some german folk-mailing list. And I found that there is a problem that from my point is very serious: Much of the music on my site is from traditional music archives and can be used for free, is without any copyright troubles beside that it must be distributed only with its original source, the archive in question, usually content of the S: field in my tune headers. Sometimes there is no S: field, since my source is a publication by those archives and so the content is in the B: field. In the GIF's PNG's PDF and I supose also in the EPS and PS files which the tunefinder supports, neither the B: nor the S: field contents are included. So the crucial information is not passed on, especially if someone does a printout. In my PS printouts I substitute the "B:" and "S:" with "C:book:" and C:source" I am not sure what to do now. I do not want to remove the files, but there must be a change in the way they appear in the public. Maybe it works to replace all "B:" and "S:" with "C:book:" and C:source:", but I also do not know whether multiple C: fields are commonly supported. I write this to the mailing list and not directly to John since I am sure the tune-finder is not the only troublemaker. I also belive strongly that in our discussions on copyright-composers/rights dealing with traditional music must also mean discussion on maintaining the sources. One first attempt could be to support the original URL and, if given in the abc tune header, mail adress with every printout and whith every copying from file to file, but print tends to be passed on to non netties so a real support of the "B:" and "S:" contents is needed. regards Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
