Internet Music Score Library Project Creates Copyright Concerns

The Internet Music Score Library Project -- which claims to have 85,000 scores, or parts for nearly 35,000 works, with several thousand being added every month -- has trod in the footsteps of Google Books and Project Gutenberg and grown to be one of the largest sources of scores anywhere. More than a business threat to traditional music publishers, the site has raised messy copyright issues and drawn the ire of established publishers.