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  1. EU M$ Patent ruling valid in Canada?? by freeasinrealale · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft EU Decision Protects OSS Projects From Suits

    In the C&D letter to IMSLP regarding copywrite violations http://imslpforums.org/Second%20U-E%20Cease%20and%20Desist%20Letter.pdf - that are approved in EU imply a similar ruling in Canada - as noted in the C&D letter; I wonder if a similar arrangement applies to patents?

  2. WOW this is nuts by Anon-Admin · · Score: 1 · on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting

    After RTFA and looking up the letter I am in shock!


    They are saying that because the copyright is 50 years past the death of the author in Canada, 70 years past the death of the author in Europe, and the number varies in other countries, that the IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) should be filtering IP's of people in those countries and enforcing the copyright lengths. Just because the work is Public domain in Canada does not mean that it is public domain in the USA and Europe. Thus they should not allow it to be distributed to the US and Europe.

    I am sorry, this is 100% NUTS! That kind of filtering would put an undue burden and undue cost of implementation on the owner of the site and should be outside the scope of enforcement.

    It sucks that all this cost them was a letter, the IMSLP should get in touch with the EFF and anyone else that will help. This should be STOPPED!

  3. Re:Why take the site down? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down

    Hi! I am the spokesperson for the IMSLP owner, and I would like to direct your attention to the following post made, for a (rather) complete list of reasons why IMSLP is down:

    http://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=3082#3082

  4. No good deed goes unpunished by Geof · · Score: 4, Informative · on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down

    Allow me to quote someone named Carolus on the IMSLP site's forums:

    1. Canada's judicial system is generally very sympathetic to rulings issued by EU magistrates. Ironically, the USA is considerably more resistant (at least in places) to such meddling by judicial ideologues and corporatist cronies who like to impose their rules on people halfway around the world. Other countries with life-plus-50 terms, like South Korea, are not at all likely to abide by EU pontifications. IMSLP has a strong case, but it was by no means guaranteed that Canadian courts would be sympathetic.
    2. The UE threat was probably just the leading edge for a series of legal threats from a consortium of large European publishers. IMSLP has been under discussion as a major threat in the newsletter of a EU publishers' asscoiation - which has been reported in the American Music Publishers Assocation newsletter. (Curiously, most US publishers are either unaware of IMSLP or don't care.)
    3. IMSLP has grown so huge that its administration and management are really beyond the capabilities of a single person plus several trusty and reliable helpers. The time has really come for IMSLP to be re-constituted in a more institutional form, like Gutenberg or Wikipedia, or perhaps taken over by a consortium of music libraries.
    4. Life-plus-70 is no guarantee. As you can see from the list, there are no less than four composers listed in the C & D letter who have been dead for over 70 years. This could have been sheer stupidity and arrogance on UE's part, or these composers could still be protected in Austria by some sort of special provision in that country's copyright law.

    This was just one person providing a public service... uh, sorry, competing unfairly with the copyright cartel.