The sheet music appears to be dug up from old books and then scanned. Aaron Dunn, who started the project while in college, tells Ars that big projects are in the works for the site, including deals with the Internet Archive and the OLPC project. While individuals can spend that same money purchasing their own copies of such works, a donation to Mus open helps fund a musical commons that makes the pieces available worldwide and for any application. Most of the money used to fund the Beethoven Sonatas was also raised from users in small increments, with a $5 average contribution. When the necessary amount is raised, a professional musician is hired to perform, say, Bach's Goldberg Variations (currently the top request). One of the site's innovative features is its bidding system, in which users can pledge contributions toward specific pieces. Mus open has been around for a couple of years but has recently rolled out a new version of its web site, added freely-downloadable sheet music, and raised enough cash to professionally record the entire set of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas and place them in the public domain. One web site has the ambitious goal of doing away with such restrictions, putting both classical recordings and sheet music into the public domain for use by anyone in the world.
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