Ships these days use a computerized course plotter (Windows... how's that for peril at sea) with a GPS so they can be within a couple hundred feet of where they want to be; the wave farms would just be programmed into the charts.
So this is why things ships like the New Carissa run aground? If you put more stuff out there for ships to run into, they will run into it, especially if you try to string it along the entire coastline.
MIDI has a different purpose - it communicates musical events in real time. Musical notation has to communicate a different - although related - set of stuff like dynamic markings, articulation markings, phrase markings, plain text, etc. It is much more concerned with the details of presentation to a human music reader than midi is.
Regarding copying the Scott Joplin book, it has probably been tweaked in some way so that copying it is, in fact, not legal. If it has been newly typeset, edited, annotated, etc, that is all fair game for copyright even if the music itself is in the public domain. If you have a copy of a book from 1915, that you can safely copy.
On the one hand, this means you can't copy something you might have been able to otherwise, on the other hand, a lot of good music would no longer be published if it weren't for the fact that pulling it out, spiffing it up, and republishing it weren't copyrighted.
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Ships these days use a computerized course plotter (Windows... how's that for peril at sea) with a GPS so they can be within a couple hundred feet of where they want to be; the wave farms would just be programmed into the charts.
So this is why things ships like the New Carissa run aground? If you put more stuff out there for ships to run into, they will run into it, especially if you try to string it along the entire coastline.
MIDI has a different purpose - it communicates musical events in real time. Musical notation has to communicate a different - although related - set of stuff like dynamic markings, articulation markings, phrase markings, plain text, etc. It is much more concerned with the details of presentation to a human music reader than midi is.
Regarding copying the Scott Joplin book, it has probably been tweaked in some way so that copying it is, in fact, not legal. If it has been newly typeset, edited, annotated, etc, that is all fair game for copyright even if the music itself is in the public domain. If you have a copy of a book from 1915, that you can safely copy. On the one hand, this means you can't copy something you might have been able to otherwise, on the other hand, a lot of good music would no longer be published if it weren't for the fact that pulling it out, spiffing it up, and republishing it weren't copyrighted.