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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keep as much of the IMSL Project online as is legally possible, including a few of the items that were demanded to be withdrawn, as well as, when legal, to provide a backup of the entire site, for when the legalities have finally been worked out.'"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. Classical music is the new Rock'n'Roll by ThirdPrize · · Score: 1, Troll

    And don't you know it.

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  2. abbreviations, off topic, of course. by mapkinase · · Score: 0, Troll

    The term (which is, by the way, "International Mathematical and Statistical Library"), has only one definition in German on the Web, and IMSLP does not have any .

    It is easy to Google things nowadays, but would not it be nice to have a common courtesy to explain what are you talking about in the summary?

    Disclaimer. I know what GSL and NR are, so I am not a complete noob on this. (Well, may be I am, let us see what mods will say).

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