Mark Seaborn writes:
> Secondly, I'd like to appeal for out-of-copyright scanned music that I can
> distribute with the program as test data.
Have you taken a look at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/? It has
several thousand high quality scans of pre-1921 public domain sheet music. The
redistribution policy for their images of the music, as stated in the FAQ, is
as follows: "The music is intended for personal, research, or educational use
only. For these purposes, you may reproduce (print, make copies, or download)
materials from this web site without prior permission, on the condition that you
provide proper attribution of the source in all copies (Historic American Sheet
Music Project, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library)." Do take a look at this, as I believe that you will find more than
enough high resolution scans for your purposes.
If for some reason you cannot use these, I have about six inches of pre-1923
public domain sheet music. If you tell me your requirements (dpi, image format,
complexity, etc.) I could scan a few scores for you.
> (In the UK, the typesetting of a piece of music goes out of copyright 25 years
> after it is published. Maybe you can tell me what copyright law says in other
> countries.)
The US has had several schemes over the last century meaning that anything
published after January 1, 1923 and before 1964 requires that you put in some
work to determine its status. However, anything published before 1923 is fair
game in the US. See http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ22.html for the whole
twisted tale.
Cheers,
benjy
