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by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:26 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: Second U-E cease and desist letter (new topic)
Replies: 229
Views: 520009

Re: cease and desist

Blouis79 wrote:Nothing to do with when they were born.

See legal information thread for more.
There may, in some countries, be a provision for presuming the term of copyright based on the birth date of an author, when the death date is unknown. However, that is not the case in Canadian law.
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:24 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: Second U-E cease and desist letter (new topic)
Replies: 229
Views: 520009

ArcticWind7 wrote:WJM and PI:

Please edit your posts rather than double posting, there is not need to create another post.

AW7
I know what "double posting" means. Do you? I haven' t "double posted".
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:21 pm
Forum: IMSLP Announcements
Topic: What to do temporarily?
Replies: 16
Views: 27985

Richard Black wrote:Well, since life+70 years covers the vast majority of the classical-music-downloading world
Vast majority?

Have you quantified this? How?
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:20 pm
Forum: IMSLP Announcements
Topic: What to do temporarily?
Replies: 16
Views: 27985

Peter wrote:If you find a way to quickly sort the 15000 files by copyright status, please let us know.
According to the copyright law of which of nearly 200 countries?
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:25 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: UE statement on the ongoing discussion
Replies: 101
Views: 484984

Re: I am not insulted

UE is struggling for their income. And to do this they demanded a few things which they had the right to claim - in the EU - and several other things which they have no right to claim, not even in EU. The latter part is a clear case of copyfraud. Other than one composer who died less than 50 years ...
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:22 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: Second U-E cease and desist letter (new topic)
Replies: 229
Views: 520009

Re: The show must go on

No thanks?!? If a composer who 'died in 1960' wrote beautiful music for us to enjoy pre-1923, shouldn't we still be eager to send a bit of our monies toward his/her family who undoubtedly still own the pub. rights to his/her compositions? Not in the United States. And on, it is not "undoubtabl...
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:20 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: Second U-E cease and desist letter (new topic)
Replies: 229
Views: 520009

PI wrote:Noone will enforce Mexican copyright law for works distributed in Austria. But Austrian laws do apply there.
No, they do not.

Mexican law applies in Mexico.

Austrian law applies in Austria.

And Canadian law applies in Canada.
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:18 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: Second U-E cease and desist letter (new topic)
Replies: 229
Views: 520009

In any case there's only the law of one country: the country where you distribute the music. That is, the country where the end user is sitting. Mexico will not prevent you from distributing Bartók in Canada. But you can't do that in Mexico or in Austria. You can choose not to offer the service the...
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:56 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: UE statement on the ongoing discussion
Replies: 101
Views: 484984

ou are right, IMSLP is the best online public domain sheet music site. I wonder why is it down now?? Why don't the admins just temporarily block the mentioned composers and leave the rest (>90%?) of the site running until an IP based filtering system is implemented? For starters, because there is n...
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:54 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: Second U-E cease and desist letter (new topic)
Replies: 229
Views: 520009

That's exactly the point I'm hammering here, but some people just can't get off the "but the server is in Canada" horse. That is the only relevant "horse". The server is your warehouse that's where things get shipped FROM. Unless Canada is under an embargo in the destination cou...
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:52 am
Forum: IMSLP Announcements
Topic: Legal information
Replies: 7
Views: 17176

Gowers Review (UK) makes the case against term extension, at least in respect of recordings. (The horse is already out of the life+70 barn for compositions in the UK)

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/E ... rt_755.pdf
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:48 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: Second U-E cease and desist letter (new topic)
Replies: 229
Views: 520009

Re: The show must go on

...except that it IS called the INTERNATIONAL music score library project... therefore copyright laws of all countries should be observed. No. And in any event, how do you do that when "all countries" have contradictory copyright laws? There are countries which have "domaine public p...
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:43 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: Do we live in a world without copyright law?
Replies: 118
Views: 232409

PI wrote:That was their intent, see the letters: Place of jurusdiction: Vienna.
Good luck with that, when the person and server of interest is in another continent.

Canadian law, not Austrian, applies.
by WJM
Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:42 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: Do we live in a world without copyright law?
Replies: 118
Views: 232409

It IS in Europe, as the service is available there. In which case a European server IS in Canada. And therefore, European companies MUST give me material which is public domain under Canadian law. Right? Yes. A Mexican publisher could sue a European organization distributing public domain scores in...
by WJM
Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:43 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: UE statement on the ongoing discussion
Replies: 101
Views: 484984

UE made perfectly reasonable requests in a perfectly reasonable way and in doing so showed evidence of a willingness to discuss stuff in a cordial way. No, it did not. It is not reasonable to expect the laws of one country to apply in another. Attempting to pursue this unreasonable course of action...