Since I recognized the sender on the email AJN forwarded as one of my bosses here at the Sibley Library, I asked him what the possibility is of getting the Lord Danby lute book digitized. He said that there is a request form on the library's page to request any PD materials to be added to the site ( http://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/?page=request ). It is intentionally well hidden so that they don't get inundated with requests. I just put in a request for the Danby book and hopefully it will be processed within a few weeks and probably digitized within a few months, so long as the manuscript is in good enough condition to be scanned. I presume that it is since it has already been scanned for microfilm (also available from Sibley: http://sibley.lib.rochester.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=+M2.1+.D172&Search_Code=CALL&PID=sfCu5id2HVBNCcKIdfZAOBDdQqq9&SEQ 071115153731&CNT=75&HIST=1 (sorry for the long link)
Cheers, Steve Gottlieb On Nov 14, 2007 10:10 PM, Arthur Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This site for downloadingmusic is just getting started. > I was hoping that the > Lord Danby Lute Book would be available on line. But > the site bears watching. There's quite a bit of unique > lute music at Eastman's Sibley Music Library. > > (For those interested, the Library of Congress now has > an on-line digital library of the works of Sousa.) > ==AJN > Boston, Mass. > This week's free download from > Classical Music Library: > Lalo "Symphonie espagnole" > Go to my web page: > http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ > For some free scores, go to: > http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Farrington, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 3:56 PM > Subject: Re: [MLA-L] "Library right"? > > > FWIW, as many--but probably not all--people on this list > are aware, we > have been digitizing works from our collection that are > PD worldwide and > making them available in our institutional repository > (see > https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/292). Most > of this is not > from our vault, bur rather from the circulating > collections. To date > we've digitized about 2200 items, mostly scores but a > handful of books > and one periodical (S.S. Stewart's Banjo and Guitar > Journal). We make > links from our online catalog and from OCLC, plus the > search engines > harvest the metadata. > > All of this is freely available. We've had inquiries > from other > libraries both about making links from their own > catalogs for items that > they too own, and also wanting to know if they can print > them out and > make circulating copies for themselves. In the spirit of > cooperation, > these are fine with us (although in the case of linking > from other > catalogs, it would be nice to give credit as to where > the redirected > user will be going). We know that several items have > been requested > specifically for recording purposes (by both Naxos > artists and the > Polish label, Acte Prealable), and we're happy to > supply. Yea, for free > even. I am even aware of someone on eBay who has loaded > many of them > onto a CD ROM that they are selling. While that bothered > me initially, > as Dan pointed out the only ones hurt by that are the > people buying the > CD instead of downloading for free! > > Jim Farrington > Head of Public Services > Sibley Music Library > Eastman School of Music > 27 Gibbs St. > Rochester, NY 14604 > 585-274-1304 585-274-1380 (f) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Music Library Association Mailing List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > W. Fenton > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [MLA-L] "Library right"? > > On 9 Nov 2007 at 8:20, Gilbert, David wrote: > > > most intellectual property before > > 1923 is in the public domain in the United States and > > performances or > > editions of those public domain works are > > copyrightable by the > performer > > or editor. > > European copyright law is quite different from US law. > In regard to > unpublished MSS, the owner by law controls the > copyright, so the > contract would not contradict the European copyright > laws (I'm foggy > on the situation with unpublished MSS in US copyright > law). > > That, of course, does not apply to out-of-copyright > editions. But I > think it would be impolite and rude to not seek > permission of the > collection from which one acquired one's copy of a > public domain work > before publishing and edition or recording made from it. > However, I > don't believe the holders of these early editions have > any right in > law to demand that publishers and editors seek > permission. > > From a common sense point of view, if you violate and > agreement with > a particular archive, you'll likely not be able to get > any more > materials from that archive in the future! > > -- > David W. 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