John Chambers wrote:
> Nigel Gatherer writes:
> | I've just gathered the ones I've kept...do you think I should ask
> | permission from the Z: names?
> 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?
I know, it was a dumb question, but some people can be touchy about it
(are you there, Jack?).
> One thing that's a bit of a bother is that people post ABC tunes that
> lack things like the S and Z lines.
I've done as much as I can on that, adding Z: lines to all of them,
based on the internet headers or sigs in the original emails. Most
tunes posted to Scots-L do give sources, so it wasn't very difficult.
> 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...you should offer to remove tunes if the owner objects...
That seems sensible to me.
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