They've been cracking down laterly. And I think we can
expect more as the industry flexes its muscles. One
woman from Duluth was fined $220,000 for copyright
infringement,
just a few days ago (she could have been fined three
million dollars, according to news reports).
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071004233021.itudt24b&show_ar<p><p><p>http://www.breitbart.com
Here's the unfortunate results of Universal Editions
cease and desist threat. It's possible there will be NO
IMSLP in the future. The NEC student has apparently
given up in frustration.
From MLA-List
As I am sure a number of you on this list know
already, IMSLP (www.imslp.org) is now the largest site
of downloadable public domain scores available on the
internet, with more than 15,000 scores, 9000 titles
and 1000 composers.
Unfortunately, the project has grown so large that the
site's owner (a music student at New England
Conservatory) can no longer afford the great amount of
time and expense required to run this site. We are
therefore looking for universty sponsors - preferably
a music library - to host both the Canadian and United
States versions of the site, with possible alternative
mirrors located in the EU and Asia.
This has been partially precipitated by a recent
threat of litigation on the part of Universal Edition
of Vienna Austria, who apparently wishes to enforce EU
copyright laws in Canada and the USA. Please direct
any inquiries to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The site will be taken down for the next
several days for maintenence and to remove certain
titles in order to comply with demands in the Cease
and Desist letter from UE's lawyers until volunteer
attorneys at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public
Interest Clinic of the University of Ottawa Law School
can prepare an adequate response to the legal
intimidation tactics employed by UE.
==AJN
Boston, Mass.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Caroline Usher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lutenet" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:23 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute iconographic project - a
proposal]
There is a long-standing effort to do for musical
iconography what RILM
and RIMM do for musicology and music manuscripts,
respectively:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/rcmi/index.htm
They don't seem to be very web-oriented. Possibly
they are concerned
about copyright issues in putting their images online
(a 400-year-old
work of art is in the public domain, but the museum
slide or
reproduction in a published volume is not.)
They tried to develop a cataloguing system for images
of musical
instruments. Unfortunately they kept revising the
rules as they went
along and discovered that the [1-page] [10-page]
[25-page] rule sets
were inadequate. I had some correspondence with them
a couple of
decades ago, which broke down because they wanted a
set of clearly
distinguished types of lute. each with its own
distinct name. I kept
trying to explain that the lute family was not
standardized and that you
would need to specify, insofar as possible, the number
of strings,
number of nuts/pegboxes, etc. They would write back
and say, "Yes, but
we need /one name/ for each type." They didn't get
that the lute is
polymorphously perverse.
I also wrote my master's thesis for the School of
Information and
Library Science at UNC on the history of their
cataloguing rules. Short
summary: They shoulda asked a librarian.
Caroline
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute iconographic project - a
proposal
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:59:18 +0100
From: G. Crona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
CC: Susanne Herre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Good idea Susanne!
It would be most convenient to have a site where as
much as possible of the
iconography could be found. Well catalogisized and in
both tumbnails and
bigger versions. A sort of mini Wikipedia like, where
we could go in and add
information if available. I believe Alfonso reads the
list, perhaps he has
some ideas of how to go about to do this?
B.R.
G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susanne Herre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:25 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Lute iconographic project - a proposal
Dear all,
I liked very much the website of Alfonso Marin about
the Lute iconography.
Thank you very much for this work!
Woulnd't it be good if this could get a more official
character und could
be enlarged by the help of us all (I guess nearly
every body has digital
photographs of lute angels, pictures, instruments in
museums a.s.o. which
would be interesting for everyone and which we could
send to Alfonso
Marin)?
Then it would be helpful if the pictures could be
organized in groups,
e.g. 1) paintings, several periods of time 2)
sculptures 3) instruments in
museums (different types a.s.o.)
The information could also be added by everyone.
I think the medium "Internet" is really good to
combine information, to
share with many people. It could be a really good
basis for research.
What do you think about this idea?
All the best,
Susanne
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