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  1. Sheet Music tabs by Moblaster · · Score: 0 · on Your Mashup Is Probably Legal

    It may be that guitar tabs are not fair use because they wholesale copy copyrighted work. Because there is usually a financial aspect to these sites, they remain prime targets for non-fair-use (unfair) claims.

    I've seen a lot of success with my hybrid site Sheet Music Archive offering a combination of locked and unlocked (by subscription) offerings of classical sheet music beyond the copyrightable term.

    However, we have seen some "free" sites copy our presumably copyrighted PDF scans (presumably to us, at least) claiming the internal content is public domain. There is an open legal question whether specific editions of public domain work are separably copyrightable. We'd like to think so although I'd be curious to know what legal precedents are known to the Slashdot community.

  2. Sheet Music Archive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Finding Digital Scans of Sheet Music?

    http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/ hosts a ton of free sheet music, but limits you to 2 downloads per day. You can purchase a CD containing the entire archive for $20 USD, however.

  3. Sheet music sites by fiferjim · · Score: 2, Informative · on Finding Digital Scans of Sheet Music?

    I use a few sites for sheet music, but mainly http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/ and http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/. A lot of music publishing companies (Dover's a good example) publish facsimile editions, and keep them in the public domain. So that's where these sites get a lot of their music.

  4. The Sheet Music Archive by JonLatane · · Score: 5, Informative · on Finding Digital Scans of Sheet Music?

    The Sheet Music Archive, ugly as their site may be, has a TON of good public domain, classical music available for free download. They limit your downloads per day with a cookie, but I think a clever-minded individual like yourself could get around that (and if you're not clever, in Firefox, Tools->Options...->Privacy->Show Cookies, search for sheetmusicarchive.net and delete whatever is there). I've used them for years in my piano studies.

  5. Re:Folks still buy Hamlet by phantomfive · · Score: 1 · on A Working Economy Without DRM?

    Not entirely true....once the edition has been out 80 years or so and the copyright expires, it can be distributed freely. If you would like to find free scores from the great composers, look at the sheet music archive. Furthermore, even buying a print version of, for example, the complete Beethoven Sonatas is only a little more than the cost of printing.

  6. Re: Sheet music is already pirated by gidds · · Score: 1 · on TV Piracy is Next
    And most of it is crap. It's either dodgy scans of existing paper music (i.e. hard to read and/or massive files), stuff that's useless on its own (e.g. one instrument's part of a multi-instrument work), or stuff that's been typeset so badly you'd think the creator had never played anything from music.

    The best places to get sheet music for free are The Choral Public Domain Library, the Mutopia Project, Gutenberg Music, the Sheet Music Archive, and the Werner Icking Music Archive. And while we're at it, the best way to engrave (typeset) music is with Lilypond.

  7. Re:Just wondered... by falzer · · Score: 2, Informative · on Gnutella2?

    As far as I know, the mp3s here are free. But many recordings are indeed copyrighted.

    Also, in case anyone is interested in sheet music that fell out of copyright, check out this link.

  8. Re:How would life be different? by msaavedra · · Score: 4, Informative · on Lessig's Thoughts On Eldred v. Ashcroft Arguments
    The older sheets may in fact be turned out to public domain by now...

    Just as a slightly off-topic tangent, there is a fairly good source of public domain classical sheet music available here. I especially like the quote from Beethoven at the top. It sounds like he was an Open Source advocate nearly 200 years before our current movement began.