Sadly the excellent International Music Score Library Project, which was rapidly building up an online resource of many thousands of out-of-copyright (or so they thought) socres, has recently been nuked by the publishers.
Read the sorry story at http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page P On 02/11/2007, Arne Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Caroline Usher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lutenet" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:23 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.) > > This is indeed a problem. An irritating one, in that it stops a lot of > relevant, possibly creative, interaction of cultural initiatives. > > But maybe the iconography site could - initially, anyway - be based on > pics that are already on the Net? That is, merely a treasure-trove of > URLs. > That wouldn't step on anyone's toes, surely? > > Anyway, why are we all so afraid of the "copyright"-bogeyman? > I mean, the Feds haven't nuked YouTube yet, have they? > > > Just wondering, > > Arne. > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- Peter Martin Belle Serre La Caulie 81100 Castres France tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.silvius.co.uk http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ www.myspace.com/sambuca999 www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty --
