Re: Mutopia-discuss Digest, Vol 36, Issue 3
Not sure what is involved but if I can help getting the backlog
cleared out, perhaps I could assist.
patrick
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> 1. Re: Hello? (David)
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> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:22:45 +0100
> From: David <david <at> sheetmusic.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Hello?
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> Hello,
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> As someone who has been invovled a little with the admin and legal
> side at MutopiaProject.org over the years, and also as a long-time
> user, I would like to express my incredible gratitude for all the hard
> work which Chris has done during all this time. As Chris says, he has
> run the site nearly all by himself, and he deserves the utmost credit
> -- it is easy to have a burst of enthusiasm that lasts for a short
> while, but it takes real commitment to keep processing submission
> after submission for over a decade. Thank you also to everyone who
> has contributed scores -- your generosity is what Chris has worked so
> constantly to enable.
>
> I agree with Chris's analysis of our strengths. There are now many
> sheet music collections on the web, some with tens of thousands of
> scores. For me, the Mutopia Project collection has three key
> strengths, two of which Chris has already mentioned:
>
> 1) All the scores are available in source form. We could potentially
> do so much with this that would not be possible with PDFs:
> transposition on demand, input data for learning software, melody
> search, ring tones <cough> ... the possibilities are endless.
>
> 2) All the scores have a permissive licence, allowing free use and
> redistribution in all contexts. The user can even perform and record
> the music without paying royalties, which is surprisingly rare amongst
> other collections.
>
> 3) Legal clarity. Submitters state which edition they used to typeset
> the work. Due diligence checks are performed to ensure that the work
> is out of copyright in both the EU and the US (and thereby most of the
> rest of the world). We've even had legal challenges and we've resolved
> them to everyone's satisfaction. Most (but not all) other sites are
> far, far behind this standard. Some sites will let you upload a scan
> without performing any checks whatsoever on its legality. Don't get me
> wrong, there are advantages to that sort of openness -- just as flikr
> allows you to upload photos without them being approved. But there are
> some circumstances where it really helps to have the legal clarity
> that the Mutopia Project collection provides.
>
> I think these strengths are really important, and so I would really
> like to see the project continue. If other people are interested in
> sharing the technical work, I would like to be involved.
>
> Mergers: I would have no problem with us merging with another project
> which shared these same values. But in any case, all the music is
> under a permissive licence, so projects don't need our permission to
> share the scores -- they can, and do, treat the Mutopia Project as an
> upstream source of high-quality sheet music, and I think that's great.
> I would be extremely happy to see scores from the Mutopia Project
> appearing in Musopen and anywhere else which can make use of them.
> Just to re-emphasise: you can copy the scores without asking. They
> don't belong to us -- they are free for anyone to use, courtesy of the
> original submitter. And of course the composer 
>
> I also agree with Chris's analysis of our shortcomings. The two things
> I'd most like to see are public (read-only) access to the SVN archive,
> and an internationalized website available in many languages. We
> answer mails to {francais,deutsch,cymraeg}@MutopiaProject.org but this
> is not sufficient. Anecdotal evidence suggests that worldwide, only
> 1/3 of sheetmusic searches are made in English. We will get much
> better search engine rankings if our website is available in the
> searcher's language. I also agree that we should use standard metadata
> formats.
>
> That's my opinion. But please don't attach any particular weight to
> it, because I'm just one person who has helped out a bit from time to
> time. I do hold the domain name but I don't intend to be pushy about
> that, because the real power behind the project is the submitters, and
> its up to you all to decide what you want to contribute to which
> collections, just like it always has been.
>
> Many thanks,
> --
> David Chan <david (at) MutopiaProject.org>
> Mutopia Project co-maintainer
> http://www.MutopiaProject.org/
>
>
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