On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:03 PM, Christof Biebricher wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
Unless we have seen the copy http://www.pianofiles.com/ offers , we can not
I agree that it is a nuisance to find our open source scores thus made
subject to bargaining. However, what can we do about it? I'm unsure
whether http://www.pianofiles.com/ breaks any 'laws' at all.
OK, if I am the only one here complaining, let's quit here.
decide whether
we can protest. If the sender of the score still credits Jean-Pierre Coulon
as the editor, we can not do much. If, however, a more or less identical score
is offered with another name as editor, than it is
clearly theft of brain work, and a protest is appropriate.
It is probably not the fault of the maintainer. If someone would offer `stolen'
material to our archive, it would probably remain undetected unless
the original author complains.
On http://www.pianofiles.com/ one finds a statement about how to play the game: when inscribing you have to announce all scores you can offer. When you found a score in the data base then you'll get the email address of the author (once you are inscribed, otherwise you'll get only a message that it is present in the data base). Then it is up to you to contact the author and get the score from him under his conditions. Thus, this site offers a search facillity specialised on piano scores, not scores. What you are "paying" for is the info about where to find the score.
As one has to get the scores themselves directly from the author (or from whomever typed the data in over there), copyright is not involved here. Sure, if the person who entered the info in that data base is not the author and does not follow what is stated in the the copyright paragraph, that would break law, but is still no problem of pianofiles.com
Bernhard
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