Re: Help Musopen liberate classical music recordings

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Dienstag 07 September 2010, um 17:58:04 schrieb Xavier Scheuer:
> Musopen wants your help to hire internationally renowned orchestras
> to record and release the rights to: the Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius,
> and Tchaikovsky symphonies.

This is a great idea, which I fully support!

The only pitfall is that the recording also needs to be done from a free 
edition (i.e. an edition which is no longer under copyright, which means that 
every editor died at least 70 years ago for European jurisdictions, or that 
the score was published before 1923 if U.S. law is applicable). Otherwise the 
recordings could still not be shared freely, as the editor has still copyright 
on the edition!
The guys over at IMSLP identified some of the projected recordings where the 
underlying edition is not yet free. For more details, see the IMSLP forums 
(http://www.imslpforums.org/ ).

Cheers,
Reinhold
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