IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project

IMSLP IS SHUT DOWN, FORCED TO CEASE AND DESIST BY UNIVERSAL EDITION

Go to the website and you will see the letter, here's a small bit...

"On Saturday October 13, 2007, I received a second Cease and Desist letter from Universal Edition. At first I thought this letter would be similar in content to the first Cease and Desist letter I received in August. However, after lengthy discussions with very knowledgeable lawyers and supporters, I became painfully aware of the fact that I, a normal college student, has neither the energy nor the money necessary to deal with this issue in any other way than to agree with the cease and desist, and take down the entire site. I cannot apologize enough to all IMSLP contributors, who have done so much for IMSLP in the last two years..."

Did he publish a list of the publishers pressing suits? I'd like to boycott.

It's coming back. They are working out all of the issues right now.

Did he publish a list of the publishers pressing suits? I'd like to boycott.

It's only United Edition.

IMSLP will be back up very shortly. The mainpage is currently up, but only viewable for a select few for administrative purposes. It won't be long now.

YAY!

Keep us posted.

IMSLP will be divided into parts. A US website (+70) and a Canadian website (+50).

And those of us in Europe will go where?

US technically. You have the same (or similar) compyright laws. There might still be warnings up saying that for specific countries in Europe, some works may still be (c).

I believe that in terms of copyright laws (years after death), Europe is at 70 years, as US.

But you do need to realise that Europe is rather large, maybe not in terms of size, but certainly in numbers, countries, population etc. It would be rather clever to make an UE site as well. Or to make sure that the US site, covers UE nations as well...