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Mr. Black: I'm sorry to say but you very first post here revealed such a biased character You could fairly say that of most contributors to this debate. Anyone with an opinion can be described as 'biased'. Actually all I have said is that with the law as it stands, UE has simply behaved as it _MUST...

Instead of issuing demand letters, making threats of what amounts to extortion via lawsuit, etc., why not instead offer to assist IMSLP in securing and installing the necessary software to block users from the EU from downloading works that are under copyright in the EU while leaving them free to d...

IMSLP is not "conspiring." You would probably find in court that it was. But part of the point here is that clearly no one wants this to come to court. It would cost arms and legs, rumble on for ever, cause endless bad feelings which would not at all be resolved when judgement was finally...

UE apparently thinks it is IMSLP's responsibility to enforce EU copyright laws in Canada, instead of UE enforcing EU copyright laws on those users who may be violating EU copyright laws by downloading That sounds nice, but IMSLP would almost certainly be deemed in a court of law to be conspiring wi...

I've got the perfect solution for you: find a country where the copyright dies with the composer, move the server there and wait. Or even a country which basically doesn't honour copyright at all (either because there's no law on it or because it's simply never raised as a practical matter due to m...

The trouble is about the works of composers who are already "late and lamented". So the living composers have no reason to worry about their income. On the contrary, they most certainly have. Part of the point of extended copyright is that it recognises that publishers will use it to subs...

It seems to me it is the attacks on Universal Edition which are outrageous. The letter from UE's lawyers, reproduced on the imslp website, seems perfectly reasonable. Many publishers, UE certainly included in my experience, provide excellent support for composers living _and dead_ and have a perfect...