Re: Mutopia copyright/legal issues

[Werner Icking]

> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:46:52 -0400
> From: Michael Nyvang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Christian Mondrup wrote:

> > There are other free sheet music archives, for example the GMD archive
> > (http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores/) and the Choral Public Domain Library
> > (http://www.cpdl.org/).
> 
> Yes I know, (I found your music there :-) , but I would think Werner and
> the others would also have to watch out now, because as I mentioned
> above - the way the copyright orgs. handle music on the internet has 
> changed within the last few years - in Denmark Werner would be asked to 
> pay for the music he has on the GMD archive, unless he removes the 
> midifiles I suppose (as far I understand it). 

I don't  know the laws in Denmark, but I know that all sound-file I have
on my server are uploaded by those they made it. In addition they are either
from compositions which are out of copyright or uploaded by the "owner"
(composer, arranger, ...).

-- Werner