Plans for the future of Gamingforce

Originally Posted by Leknaat

Legal issues--Most classical sheet music published before 1923 is in the public domain, so a nice Google search for the piece you want may actually lead you a free download.

From what I've seen a vast quantity of sheet music that is shared here is not actually in the public domain. Or there are a number of other copyright restrictions in play, such as publishers who transcribe the music, make a few minor edits, and then receive updated copyright control over that specific copy of said piece for another 75 years.
Sure Bach has been dead for about 250 years now, but good luck finding a scannable/scanned copy of his music published before 1923.

This whole matter of legal problems is a steaming load of dung, and is quite clearly a trumped up argument to whip up as much support as possible, for fear that the "community differences" and "out of space" arguments wouldn't be enough to convince people to go along with the plan to separate the forums.

We've had, what, one copyright problem throughout the entire lifetime of this forum, and that was for a Superman soundtrack?
We've even had Alistair Hinton come on to these forums for a while, harassing various members to stop posting sheets that his publishing company has put out; and yet here we are probably two years since without the slightest hint of legal action. Observing his zealous behavior, I would figure that if anyone would file a DMCA notice against GFF for sheet music sharing, it would be him.

I find it surprising that either so many of you are so stupid to think that there really is a looming legal danger, or are so cynical as to think that you must masquerade as one in hopes of convincing others to believe it.
The only thing that has changed that precipitated the need for this discussion is the shrinking amount of usable server space, which is very easily resolved and I believe would be an acceptable solution to all parties concerned.

Nonetheless, I don't really intend to influence any decisions that would be made regarding this matter. I just plead that those doing so would cut the crap.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Bigblah

So if I present supplementary arguments for moving the forums, I'm just spewing crap?

Only when said supplementary arguments are embarrassingly weak and really without precedent.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It just seems silly to hear people talking about the Musician's Library like a menacing cloud of legal doom.
I can understand My Stuff being a potent DMCA liability. The content of that section has often been popular and recent media, which is rigorously policed.
The Musician's Library, on the other hand, does not have nearly as much liability as most appear to be communicating here.

But I suppose I might have mistakenly (though quite easily) misconstrued their chatter to be exclusive to the Concert Hall considering that's generally been the focus of the last 7 pages.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.