Аарон выложил слепой тест исполнения двух оркестров и голосование о дальнейшей судьбе проекта.
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Musopen is a non-profit dedicated to providing copyright free music content: music recordings, sheet music and a music textbook. 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.
This isn't just a crazy idea: we've done this before using donations from our website, but now we want to tackle something much more ambitious.
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.
Ну и у них получилось собрать 68 тысяч долларов, вместо ожидаемых 11 - теперь решают, как потратить.
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