This site for downloadingmusic is just getting started.
I was hoping that the
Lord Danby Lute Book would be available on line. But
the site bears watching. There's quite a bit of unique
lute music at Eastman's Sibley Music Library.
(For those interested, the Library of Congress now has
an on-line digital library of the works of Sousa.)
==AJN
Boston, Mass.
This week's free download from
Classical Music Library:
Lalo "Symphonie espagnole"
Go to my web page:
http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/
For some free scores, go to:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrington, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MLA-L] "Library right"?
FWIW, as many--but probably not all--people on this list
are aware, we
have been digitizing works from our collection that are
PD worldwide and
making them available in our institutional repository
(see
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/292). Most
of this is not
from our vault, bur rather from the circulating
collections. To date
we've digitized about 2200 items, mostly scores but a
handful of books
and one periodical (S.S. Stewart's Banjo and Guitar
Journal). We make
links from our online catalog and from OCLC, plus the
search engines
harvest the metadata.
All of this is freely available. We've had inquiries
from other
libraries both about making links from their own
catalogs for items that
they too own, and also wanting to know if they can print
them out and
make circulating copies for themselves. In the spirit of
cooperation,
these are fine with us (although in the case of linking
from other
catalogs, it would be nice to give credit as to where
the redirected
user will be going). We know that several items have
been requested
specifically for recording purposes (by both Naxos
artists and the
Polish label, Acte Prealable), and we're happy to
supply. Yea, for free
even. I am even aware of someone on eBay who has loaded
many of them
onto a CD ROM that they are selling. While that bothered
me initially,
as Dan pointed out the only ones hurt by that are the
people buying the
CD instead of downloading for free!
Jim Farrington
Head of Public Services
Sibley Music Library
Eastman School of Music
27 Gibbs St.
Rochester, NY 14604
585-274-1304 585-274-1380 (f)
-----Original Message-----
From: Music Library Association Mailing List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
W. Fenton
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MLA-L] "Library right"?
On 9 Nov 2007 at 8:20, Gilbert, David wrote:
most intellectual property before
1923 is in the public domain in the United States and
performances or
editions of those public domain works are
copyrightable by the
performer
or editor.
European copyright law is quite different from US law.
In regard to
unpublished MSS, the owner by law controls the
copyright, so the
contract would not contradict the European copyright
laws (I'm foggy
on the situation with unpublished MSS in US copyright
law).
That, of course, does not apply to out-of-copyright
editions. But I
think it would be impolite and rude to not seek
permission of the
collection from which one acquired one's copy of a
public domain work
before publishing and edition or recording made from it.
However, I
don't believe the holders of these early editions have
any right in
law to demand that publishers and editors seek
permission.
From a common sense point of view, if you violate and
agreement with
a particular archive, you'll likely not be able to get
any more
materials from that archive in the future!
--
David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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