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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2011-07-20 17:26
He's not, strictly speaking, "charging people for something that is freely available"--he's creating a new product, namely his CD collection of PDFs. The music itself may be freely available, but he's got them all together in one place, so in effect he's delivering a service to consumers. Not everybody wants to rummage through the IMSLP in order to print things out for themselves.
I have no problem with it.
If he had midi files to go with it, I'd basically pay him whatever he was asking for it.
There are many other vendors in the oboe world who are selling music that's in the public domain; it's all in the packaging. I don't see what difference there is between him with his homemade CD that contains the Mozart oboe concerto and, say, Sheetmusicplus.
I understand your point about him profiting from the labors of the folks who worked hard to scan and upload materials to the IMSLP, but that's the whole idea of Wiki Commons, that you're donating your time and effort to make things available to everyone free of charge; what they then do with it isn't supposed to concern you. There are people who use the Wiki Commons artwork for their own profit purposes, too.
Post Edited (2011-07-20 17:27)
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WoodwindOz |
2011-07-20 16:07 |
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Bryanwalker |
2011-07-20 17:11 |
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Dutchy |
2011-07-20 17:26 |
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HautboisJJ |
2011-07-20 17:32 |
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Mark Charette |
2011-07-20 18:20 |
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RobinDesHautbois |
2011-07-20 19:28 |
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huboboe |
2011-07-20 22:10 |
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GoodWinds |
2011-07-21 00:23 |
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