A commenter on Philip's recent post about copyrighting the Dead Sea Scrolls mentioned that although the scrolls themselves might be in public domain, photographs of them might be copyrightable. This might be true technically, but it violates the purpose of copyright, which is to protect creative work. Some photographs are artistic and obviously should […]
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Contacting the Publishers Directly about YouTube
I was pleased to find another choral musician publicizing information about YouTube performances of choral music. Jack Senzig, director of the Gifford Children’s Choir of Racine, WI, has been a choral director for 20+ years and he's trying to provide a useful service for my professional colleagues. He has created a site called the […]
Superstar
He only needs one name in the choral world: Eric. Is he our Madonna? or Sting? A fantastic article in the LA Times, with thanks to Julie Laylander for pointing me to this article. My favorite quotes: “The composer in me wants to think that it’s happening because I’m tapping […]
Piracy is advertising?
“What you are actually doing is advertising.” Neil Gaiman, famous author, has been honored with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with 4 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 1 World Fantasy Award, 4 Bram Stoker Awards, 6 Locus Awards, 2 British SF Awards, 1 British […]
Looking forward to hearing Beethoven’s 10th symphony
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a challenge to the 1994 Mickey Mouse protection act which extended copyright terms and retroactively re-copyrighted some works which had passed into public domain: The dispute that led to Golan v. Holder dates to 1994, when Congress passed a law that moved vast amounts of material from the public domain […]
IMSLP under attack AGAIN
IMSLP (aka Petrucci Music Library) is the orchestral equivalent of CPDL, with tens of thousands of public-domain pieces available in freely-downloadable formats, often with instrumental parts. A couple of years ago, Universal Edition managed to get them shut down because some of the pieces hosted there which are in public domain in the USA and […]