Help Musopen liberate classical music recordings

[Xavier Scheuer]

Hi dear LilyPond Users!

I'm relaying here a call for donations in order to liberate some
classical symphonies recordings from copyright entanglement.

Musopen wants your help to hire internationally renowned orchestras
to record and release the rights to: the Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius,
and Tchaikovsky symphonies.

I'm not good in writing stuffs (especially in English), so I'm just
giving some links to:

  – a much better article written by the Electronic Frontier
    Foundation:
    "Musopen Wants to Give Classical Music to the Public Domain"
    
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/musopen-wants-give-classical-music-public-domain

  – the kickstarter page of the project (where you can support and
    donate, as well as obtain more detailed information about the
    project):
    "Record and release free music without copyrights"
    
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-release-free-music-without-copyrights

  – Musopen website:  http://www.musopen.com


They have already reached their initial goal of $11,000 , but every
additional $ will serve to release other pieces of music (set of Mozart
violin sonatas, or all of Chopin's mazurkas, ballades, or nocturnes...
a little money buys a LOT of music).

Thanks for your attention.

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>