[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > Performing rights societies (ASCAP, BMI, PRS ...) own the rights to
> > > their members' compositions, so most professional composers cannot
> > > contribute to Mutopia. Is (4) pointless, then?
>
> > It's not pointless for composers who don't belong to such societies.
> > Are there many?
>
> There are certainly many, the question is how many of their
> works are worth performing. A friend working in a music publishing
> company told me that since computer typesetting programs (with MIDI
> output) become more popular, they receive a lot more music from
> amateur composers, which they have to reject. Well, we shouldn't
It would be an interesting experiment to allow this music (given a
correct license), but there should be some kind of feedback, like for
example the amazon "reader comments". In this way, innocent
downloaders have an idea of what they're downloading.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
