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<p>Musopen is a non-profit library of copyright free music. This
project will use your donations to purchase and release music to the
public domain. Right now, if you were to buy a CD of Beethoven's 9th
symphony, you would not be legally allowed to do anything but listen to
it. You wouldn't be able to share it, upload it, or use it as a
soundtrack to your indie film- yet Beethoven has been dead for 183
years and his music is no longer copyrighted. There is a lifetime of
music out there, legally in the public domain, but it has yet to be
recorded and released to the public.<br>
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<p>This isn't just a crazy idea: <a
href="http://musopen.com/blog/?p=13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">we've
done
this before</a> using donations from our website, but now we want
to tackle something much more ambitious.</p>
<p>We want your help to hire an internationally renowned orchestra to
record and release the rights to: the Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, and
Tchaikovsky symphonies. We have price quotes from several orchestras
and are ready to hire one, pending the funds.</p>
<p>What can I do? <br>
Donate, and vote on what we should buy with the money. Then we will
release that music in lossless quality with a creative commons license.
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<p>You can also help by voting for us on these sites:
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Vote for us on Digg (hopefully Digg V4 is working): <a
href="http://bit.ly/9YUI35" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9YUI35</a>
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Vote for us on Reddit: <a href="http://bit.ly/birkg8" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">http://bit.ly/birkg8</a> <br>
Vote for us on BoingBoing: <a href="http://bit.ly/dBLdUN"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/dBLdUN</a></p>
<p>Or Using Twitter, facebook etc to spread the word.</p>
<p>What about beyond 10k? <br>
Every $1000 buys a complete set of Mozart violin sonatas, or all of
Chopin's mazurkas, ballades, or nocturnes... a little money buys a LOT
of music.</p>
<p>Where does the music go afterwards? <br>
Thanks to generous and free hosting from ibiblio, music will remain on
our website indefinitely, and we will share it with other
organizations: included in Wikipedia articles, added to archive.org,
and integrated with OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops</p>
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Project location:
<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/palo-alto-ca">Palo Alto, CA</a>
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