On Wednesday 21 July 2004 22:52, Mark Pellegrini
wrote:
First, for those of you who have never heard of
it, the Mutopia project is
to songs what Project Gutenberg is to text. The offer lots of public
domain midis that are great additions to the project.
Why not uploading the midi as well?
Angela has said (rightly so) that full length
songs belong at Wikisource,
not on Wikipedia itself. So the above changes should be made there.
If Wikipedia has full length texts of, say, national anthems, why wouldn't it
have full-length recordings of them, too?
I have no particular objection to having an archive of this sort in
Wikisource. One still has to be mindful of copyright issues. I am not
aware of anyone trying to enforce copyrights on the words and musical
score of a national anthem. Recordings add another dimension in that
performance rights may involve additional copyrights. Copyright issues
are a big concern at Wikisource, and the onus should be on the person
contributing something to justify his claims that he has the right to
upload something. Verifying this for someone else can be a difficult job.
I have visited some general national anthem sites, and it seems that
someone just plugged in the notes on the score into a computer program.
The musical quality is just bloody awful. Whatever is done, I sincerely
hope that it sounds better than some of these excuses for music. :-)
Ec