The_MPA on twitter imslp Site Admin UPDATE- A balanced legal look at why the MPA’s assertions are baseless can be found here It ends with a statement worthy of repeating here “Sad to say, the Evil Empire Strikes Back – all too soon. I would be grateful for your response detailing your undertakings by 3Ħth Floor, British Music House, 26 Berners Street, London W1T 3LRįax: +44 (0)20 7637 3929 (please confirm fax by sending me an Penalty of perjury, that we are authorized to act on behalf of theĬopyright owner of an exclusive right of that is infringed. The information in this notification is accurate and we confirm, under Registrant Email: have good faith belief that use of the material in this manner is notĪuthorized by the copyright owner or the law. Registrant Organization:Project Petrucci LLC Here are the registrant’s details to the best of our knowledge: This material is copyright protected in most counties including all We therefore request that you withdraw from all associations you haveĭomain name so that the website cannot be accessed.Īn example of the infringing material on is ‘The Bells’ by Infringement once notice of the infringement has been given. Website, Godaddy are liable to pay damages for secondary copyright Music notation which is an infringement of copyright. which makes available unlicensed copyright protected sheet We understand that Godaddy are the sponsoring registrar for the website We, the Music Publishers Association, take action to remove unlicensedĬopyright material from infringing websites.
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Please feel free to make this incident as widely known as possible. I also grant everyone permission to reproduce the above post in part or in its entirety. IMSLP / Project Petrucci LLC grants everyone permission to reproduce it in part or in its entirety. The following is the e-mail that GoDaddy received from the MPA. Note that the feldmahler address is likewise offline. Workaround: You can still reach the site by using either or Note, however, that some links on the site that refer to IMSLP.ORG may be broken you will have to manually replace IMSLP.ORG with one of the two above domain names manually in the URL bar.Īnyone who is interested in suing or helping to sue the MPA under DMCA section 512(f) (misrepresentations) please contact me at imslproject yahoo.ca. What is the MPA complaining about? Rachmaninoff’s Bells, which is public domain both in Canada and the USA: … _Sergei%29 MPA’s claim is entirely bogus. We will be working to restore service as soon as possible.
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To view any sheet on full screen, simply. IMSLP has filed a DMCA counter notice with GoDaddy, however, the DMCA seems to require the registrar to wait no less than 10 days before restoring service. Built using Silverlight, this is without a doubt the most attractive platform for this application.Search for the composer in the home screen, then pan right to view the list of matching compositions, tap any of these, to view the full sheet music score for this composition. GoDaddy took the entire IMSLP.ORG domain down. The MPA, without notifying us, sent to our domain registrar GoDaddy a bogus DMCA takedown notice. IMSLP is currently under an extraordinarily underhanded legal attack by the Music Publishers Association of UK ( ). Here is the announcement as posted on the IMSLP forum:
(By the way, all Rachmaninoff becomes PD not in 20 years or 10 years, but in 2014). Since it is PD, you can also sell it as a reprint in the USA, as Kalmus do. The only problem is that, in spite of the MPA’s assertions otherwise, The Bells is Public Domain in the US and Canada, so they are perfectly within their rights having up on the IMSLP. Well, of the nearly 91,000 scores hosted there, guess how many files the MPA found to be in violation. So, there must be a whole lot of illegal files on the IMSLP?
Not just one offending file, or a list of offending files, but the entire IMSLP website. Today, using a trick borrowed from those who got Wikileaks tossed of ’s servers a few months ago, the MPA, or Music Publishers Association, has demanded the IMSLP’s webhost, Go Daddy, pull the entire IMSLP website. Contributors include Major conservatories and music libraries and institutions including the Eastman Library and the Beethoven Haus in Bonn. The IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library has long since evolved from being a controversial newcomer to an essential resource for performers and librarians world wide.