copyright

The following article is by Prue Adler and originally appeared on the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) blog. It is reprinted here with kind permission.

The following post originally appeared here on the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) website and has been reprinted with the kind permission of Prue Adler and the author Jonathan Band.

The following originally appeared on the website of IFLA's Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) and is reprinted here with kind permission from Julia Brungs.

There is currently a major dispute going on between DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) and IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) over the latter's copying of free manuscript images from DIAMM with consequent invalidations of DIAMM's contracts with some owning libraries. IMSLP is saying the images are out there so they are free to use but DIAMM says that because of this some libraries have already withdrawn images and others might well refuse to allow further digitization. There has been a lot of discussion on MLA-L and on the IMSLP forums. This needs to be brought to the attention of the international music librarian community and your reactions are welcome.