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Fantastic stuff. Thank you for your time and expertise in running this server!

Thank ooo!

First of all, Australia and New Zealand are not the same as regards copyright term. Australia's is 70 pma while NZ's is 50 pma. Australia's 70 pma was thankfully not retroactive, so only authors who died 1955 and later are protected for 70 years. Thus, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams are protected in...

Does anyone know whether the version in the NMA is any different from their 1957 urtext and if it actually changes anything in the score, or whether it's just a compilation of it into their new collection?

If I don't find out an answer here what would you suggest...emailing Baerenreither?

Danke

I'm very confused. The case study I'm using is the Bartok page, and the Bartok Viola Concerto. on the bartok page it says the two servers are located within Canada (not EU, or US). And at http://imslp.org/wiki/Pre-1923_copyright_law it says "IMSLP follows Canadian copyright laws because the two...

Apologies if I am irritating by asking a question that's been explained the answer to before, and most people know already, but - if it's legal for Australians & New Zealanders (and it looks like Canadians too) to both upload and access by the way of download, why can't we currently upload the V...

And what copyright expiry restrictions are they placed under at IMSLP? If I see it right, in AU/NZ we generally have the most free public domain rules here (even for the high profile cases like Bartok and so forth). It's 50 years instead of 75. So if there's certain files placed on US servers which ...