Flute music DVD on ebay beware

[sinebar]

If you run across this DVD, link below, on ebay beware. I purchased it and although it contains all the sheet music listed on the auction page it is very difficult to use. For staters you can only print the sheet music but you can't save or copy any of it. That's not that big a deal but the real problem is you can't even do a basic word search because it's a scanned image and it cannot be unlocked. Well if you can't search it that means you have to litteraly scroll through hundreds of pages one by one just to find one piece of music. That's laborious and it sucks. Also the image quality is not that good. There's a lot of good music on it but the DVD is almost unusable.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Flute-SHEET-MUSIC-C ... dZViewItem

[pied_piper]

So, if I understand you, all the titles are in a single file (PDF)?

A scanned file is essentially a digital photocopy which makes me wonder about the copyright. Many of those titles are old enough that the copyright has expired or may be in the public domain, but I'd be a bit suspicious about whether the seller had valid copyright permission for all of the titles. Many times, publishers will re-release a title with some minor edits just so that they can get a copyright for a new edition. Unless they scanned very old editions of each title, some of them could possibly be in violation.

[sinebar]

So, if I understand you, all the titles are in a single file (PDF)?

A scanned file is essentially a digital photocopy which makes me wonder about the copyright. Many of those titles are old enough that the copyright has expired or may be in the public domain, but I'd be a bit suspicious about whether the seller had valid copyright permission for all of the titles. Many times, publishers will re-release a title with some minor edits just so that they can get a copyright for a new edition. Unless they scanned very old editions of each title, some of them could possibly be in violation.

This is what the read me file states:

Many of the works that make-up this sheet music collection have been either edited, typeset, &/or arranged by us, Atlantic Coast Publishing. These are not in the public domain, and are protected by international copyright. All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2005 (C) Atlantic Coast Publishing Inc.

All the sheets have Atlantic Coast Publishing printed them so I guess they have copy rights.

[fluteguy18]

The whole operation sounds dodgy to me. I'd rather just buy my music the old fashioned way.