>> Simply putting raw scans[of Skinner's work] on-line would be better. > Wouldn't there be some copyright issues with raw scans though?
The Lester Levy sheet music collection is mostly stuff published in Skinner's lifetime, and they seem to have found a way round it; they are high-profile enough that the publishers, if still in business, *must* have noticed them. Pity their scans aren't better... There is also an Argentinian tango scores site with even more recent material, and even worse scan quality. > BTW, I recently had to stop broadcasting Scottish music over the > Internet because of the CARP ruling: > http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html > Copyright always gets you in the end. Gone before I ever got a connection fast enough to try it. Damn. American copyright law is weird and American copyright law on broad- casting is even weirder. Anybody know how it ever came about that US radio broadcasters don't pay any royalties? =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
