[Foundation-l] Dream a little...

[Birgitte SB]

--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> P. Birken wrote:
> > 2006/10/15, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> >
> >   
> >> How about recordings of out of copyright (i.e.
> classical)  music?  The
> >> only rights holder should be whomever recorded it
> and whomever they
> >> signed agreements with in order to be permitted
> to record it.  There
> >> are a number of small record labels such as
> [[Nimbus Records]] as well
> >> as the concert halls themselves which have large
> libraries of music.
> >> I think this would only be worthwhile as a funded
> endeavor if it could
> >> land us a truly massive archive which would
> enable us to illustrate a
> >> majority of our articles on long-dead composers.
> >>     
> >
> > Classical music recordings are what I would call
> the classical
> > copyright nightmare. It might be possible to get
> solo pieces under a
> > free licence, but orchestra pieces... I talked to
> a Conductor of the
> > local university orchestra about putting some of
> their recordings
> > under a free license. You have to get forty people
> (the recorders) to
> > put this under a free licence. The next part is
> that while the music
> > is free, orchestras usually rent the notes from
> some music publishing
> > company (because it's too expensive to buy a
> complete set of notes for
> > every piece). These companies in turn put demands
> on your use of their
> > notes, most often fees for commercial use, which
> would in a way apply
> > if you put this under the GNU-FDL or CC-by-SA.
> >
> > Nevertheless, it sounds like a good idea to fund a
> piano player to
> > record the major Bach, Beethoven and Mozart piano
> pieces.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Philipp
> Hoi,
> When it is not possible to play a piece by Haydn
> Mozart Rossini because 
> there is no music available, we should SCAN these
> works and digitize 
> them. When we have done this, we should make them
> available. When we 
> make these works available, it will become easier to
> perform these 
> works. As more material becomes easily available,
> more music will be 
> played. This in term will stimulate the performance
> of music.
> 

It is also worth pointing out we currently do not have
the capabilty of truly digitizing music.   We can only
host images of sheet music right now.


Birgitte SB

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