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Nigel Gatherer writes:
| John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| > | There must have been a few ABC notated tunes in the Scots-L
| > | archives. Would it be desirable/useful/easy/worthwhile to consider
| > | collecting them together?
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| > Actually, I've been doing that since early in 2000. Counting the tune
| > you just posted, I have 49 tunes. They're at:
| > http://trillial.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/scots-l/
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| I've just gathered the ones I've kept, and they number 140!. I can put
| them on my web site or perhaps they could be housed on the Tulloghgorum
| site? Or do you think I should ask permission from the Z: names? Och,
| it's all so complicated!
Well, I wouldn't expect that you should have to hunt down
transcribers for things posted to a mailing list. I'd think there
would be an assumption that tunes posted to a list like this will
naturally be saved and played by the readers. Why would you post a
tune here, after all?
One thing that's a bit of a bother is that people post ABC tunes that
lack things like the S and Z lines. You really should give proper
credit to sources and transcribers. You can often figure this out
from the English text, but this information is very easy to lose. We
should be encouraging people to put such info in the ABC headers, so
it will get carried along with the tune.
It's probably a good idea for any online tune archive to include a
notice that if any of the tunes are copyrighted, the owners should
contact [email addr]. You should offer to remove tunes if the owner
objects to them being online in ABC. You should also suggest that an
alternative is to keep them online, with a copyright notice plus an
email address or URL in the ABC headers.
My experience is that tune composers usually approve of online ABC
versions, once they understand what ABC is. Most people like their
tunes being played, after all. And if the tune contains a pointer
back to the copyright owner, it functions as a sort of free ad that
makes it easy for people to find more tunes by the same composer, and
to quickly get permission if they want to use a tune for some
lucrative commercial purposes.
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