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Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting

Posted by kdawson on from the stepping-forward dept.

bbc writes "Project Gutenberg has volunteered to host all it legally can of the IMSLP's catalog. The Canadian provider of free public domain music recently caved to legal threats from an Austrian sheet music seller. On the Book People mailing list, Project Gutenberg's founder Michael Hart wrote: 'Project Gutenberg has volunteered to keep as much of the IMSL Project online as is legally possible, including a few of the items that were demanded to be withdrawn, as well as, when legal, to provide a backup of the entire site, for when the legalities have finally been worked out.'"

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  1. someone think of the musicians by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 4, Funny

    But how will those dead musicians make a living when their work is available for free on the internet.

    1. Re:someone think of the musicians by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well *I*'m not sitting in the front row when they're touring.
      Don't want any body parts falling on me.

      --

      May contain traces of nut.
      Made from the freshest electrons.
  2. Re:Classical music is the new Rock'n'Roll by pla · · Score: 3, Funny

    Classical music is the new Rock'n'Roll

    ...Or something like that, anyway...

    (Just in case anyone needed more evidence that pretty much everything "new" still contains 99% things-that-came-before, making the idea of copyrights absolutely absurd...)

  3. Project Gutenberg? by hal2814 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The US military recently tried to shut down Project Gutenberg's hosting server. Project Gutenberg listened to the server's cries of "No disassemble!" and with the help of Project Sheedy, helped the server to safety.

  4. Re:Good god, kdawson by tietokone-olmi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pardon me, but I believe the correct expression here is "member of the national socialist worker's party of Germany, style of expression subdepartment". Please report to the incinerator at your earliest convenience. Heil Hitler!