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Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed

Posted by samzenpus on from the music-of-the-masses dept.

yourlord writes "Just under two years ago Musopen launched a Kickstarter campaign covered here on Slashdot. Today that project is complete with the release of a large amount of classical recordings into the public domain. This brings an extensive collection of high quality classical music into the public domain. The project music is hosted on the Musopen site, and on archive.org."

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  1. Re:It was me! by aztracker1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do you figure... giving 100,000 of income to charity is at most a tax break of 50,000 or so.... would 100,000 not be more than the 50,000 in taxes? I always hate arguments like this.... donations are not 1:1 deductible from taxes.

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    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info
  2. Re:It was me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Their attitude is that the musicians (and by extension, all content creators) should create art/music/films/games/etc. for the benefit of the rest of the rest of us as a hobby "

    Not at all. We want them to get paid _once_ for their work, just like the rest of us.
    You don't pay the builders, painters, cleaners of your house every time you use it, why should you pay for the background music there?