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@Mapichleko, Re: the edition princeps clauses, each country deals with these differently, with different periods of protection. However, from your comments I gather ( correct me if I am wrong ) that you are hoping for a situation where, if someone makes a new publication of a public domain work, th...

As for the complaint that he was not allowed to defend himself on the wiki, readers should note that the user named Mapichleko vandalized a page on the wiki (possibly out of ignorance) with a written accusation that IMSLP was "immoral" and was therefore duly banned (by me) for a week... T...

PS: About Carolus' excessive reaction: I never advocated unlimited copyright Not explicitly, but it was implied . You hold that publishers should be given credit (in the form of restricting access to scores) for the work of engraving music, no matter how long ago they did it ... Please quote where ...

I beg everyone to consider (and hopefully understand) that all the works of lesser-known composers have not been published yet, far from it, even 50 years or more after their death. In some cases, it is about half of their works which are still waiting printing. Any statement implying that all the w...