Comments on: public domain music trouble

By: hugh

hugh — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:15:57 +0000

hi andrius, how can we help?

By: Andrius Kulikauskas

Andrius Kulikauskas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:34:31 +0000

Thank you for raising this issue. Please know that there is a new European Union thematic network COMMUNIA for the Public Domain. http://communia-project.eu My laboratory Minciu Sodas is a founding member. I welcome your participation! Thank you to Sasha Mrkailo for alerting me to your post.

By: hugh

hugh — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:20:47 +0000

i think there have been cases where canadian courts have been asked to consider EU laws for copyright. as far as i know, there has been no successful case like this.

By: k srivatsa iyengar

k srivatsa iyengar — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:07:41 +0000

just curious … what would the austrian courts do ? give a notice asking the canadians to appear in their courts ? or go to canada and file a case there saying that some people in austria is accessing the site and that such an action is illegal and violative of the copyrights ? as stephen davies above indicated.. let the austrians tell the austrians that it is illegal to access the files .. i dont think the canadian site should have yielded to the bluff

By: Stephen Davies

Stephen Davies — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:11:59 +0000

The fact that this project was accessible via the Internet is irrelevant. It is the Austrians who would be breaking copyright by accessing the files. It is not the Canadians’ fault for offering it, when it is their national right to do so.
Universal AG was arguing more on bluff than basis. It would appear that some large corporations would prefer to outspend than to act ethically.

By: Eunah Choi

Eunah Choi — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:26:42 +0000

By the way, whenever I think of those wonderful people behind the efforts and the enrichment of public domain, I can’t help quoting the last two lines of Shakespeare’s sonnet XVIII to praise them:
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

You are truly doing admirable work!! I am so proud of being one of the Librivox members. I hope I will record a short work so that I can add my little contribution to LibriVox. Thank you! Be forever, LibriVox!!

By: Eunah Choi

Eunah Choi — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:11:45 +0000

It is so shocking and sad to hear that a wonderful public domain music site has been shut down. It is a sorrowful situation, but we will not allow a tragic ending for this matter! We will fight and pray for the folks at IMSLP. May IMSLP be resurrected, and public domain be free forever!!