Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note; New York Times, 2/22/11

Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times; Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note:

"The site, the Internet Music Score Library Project, has trod in the footsteps of Google Books and Project Gutenberg and grown to be one of the largest sources of scores anywhere. It claims to have 85,000 scores, or parts for nearly 35,000 works, with several thousand being added every month. That is a worrisome pace for traditional music publishers, whose bread and butter comes from renting and selling scores in expensive editions backed by the latest scholarship. More than a business threat, the site has raised messy copyright issues and drawn the ire of established publishers."