[Foundation-l] Mozart's works released

[Husky]

Unfortunately they don't seem to be free.

>From the license agreement (
http://nma.redhost24-001.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=50
):
"Wholesale downloading or reuse of the contents of this website is
prohibited under all circumstances, whether commercial or otherwise. The
works of Mozart should be considered in the public domain. Restrictions may,
however, apply to the scholarly edition as such, the graphic representation,
and the reproduction of images of source materials."

The works presented at the website are the editions from the Neue
Mozart-Ausgabe, published by Bärenreiter-Verlag, which are not PD in any
way.

-- Hay Kranen / [[User:Husky]]

On 12/14/06, Pat Gunn <pgunn at dachte.org> wrote:
>
> In case anybody missed it,
> Mozart's complete works were recently published on the
> internet by the (Austria-based) International Mozart Foundation.
>
> http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-11T185118Z_01_L11804081_RTRUKOC_0_US-ARTS-MUSIC-MOZART.xml
>
> I'm not sure what license it's under. If it's a free one
> (or PD-equivalent), then it's similar in a sense to several
> ideas raised in Jimbo's idea drive sometime back.
>
> A thought:
> If it is freely licensed, to what extent should the foundation
> consider republishing its content on WMF projects? Should WM
> avoid possibly stepping on the toes of other projects, avoiding
> duplicating any free conttent they make, or should it try to
> collect everything (and possibly give prominent credit) that falls
> under its mission? The general question may apply to other groups
> like Project Gutenberg's works.
>
> ---
> Pat Gunn
> mod: csna, bmcm, bmco, cooa, cona, clpd, coom
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> what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt.
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