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Publishers Force Domain Seizure of Public Domain Music Resource

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

IMSLP, the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has just suffered a damaging attack on the site’s infrastructure. In a wrongful action over a single 90 year-old classical piece by Rachmaninoff, the UK’s Music Publishers Association convinced registrar GoDaddy to seize IMSLP’s domain name, which took the site completely offline.

Source: Publishers Force Domain Seizure of Public Domain Music Resource