A quick fyi for Bach lovers: You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kibbie (University of Michigan) on original baroque organs in Leipzig, Germany. Start with a collection of Favorite Masterworks, or get the complete works that have been divided into 13 groups for easy download. Once you download these zip files, you will need to unzip them and import them into iTunes or a similar application. Thanks for @Pdarche (Peter Darche) for flagging this for us.
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Being Bach was born in 1685 and copyright is good for 75 years. See http://www.pdinfo.com/copyrt.php. There is no license required. So shut up you twit.
But derived works and compilations are the property of the person doing the work, even if the tunes are out of (c)
Correct in the abstract, but wrong here. Compilations, edited versions–which are almost always what is published, and performance can have copyrights in force owned by the compiler, editor, or performer, respectively.
@Techguy2600: read up on the difference between “publication copyright” (which Bach’s original publication would fall under, and therefore has fallen into PD), and “performance copyright”, which is the copyright of the recording (in this case, of Dr. Kibbie)… in which case, the copyright stopwatch started ticking only after the recording engineer pressed “STOP” on the recorder.
IF Dr. Kibbie owns his recordings. Are you sure these aren’t under a lable, who would then own the rights.
If you check the link to the artist you find his bio page from his record company… whereat the downloading issue is addressed.
TL;DR version: This appears to be okay.
Follow the link and you will find the recordings on a page that at least LOOKS legitimate. Copyright indicated to the “Regents of the University of Michigan.”
http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/download.htm
http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/kibbie.htm
“Thanks to generous support from Dr. Barbara Furin Sloat in honor of J. Barry Sloat, the University of Michigan is offering Dr. Kibbie’s recordings of all 270 Bach works as free internet downloads…”
Interesting to note that there were something like 53 Bachs with musical talent, though none surpassed Johan Sebastian. Sadly the gene (genius) died out.
Being able to download all of what is listed is magnificent. Thanks to these king people.
How do I download?
Appreciate and grateful for the opportunity to hear Bach’s Organ works before I buy box sets
thanks for a good job
I want to study all.
I love it all
I want to be like him.
it says right under the download-URIs:
This work by James Kibbie, The Complete Organ Works of J.S. Bach is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
thanks for the great job
Ilove classic music,
please help me to downloads for free….
tks.
i really love your musics