Terms of Reference
Music libraries are at the forefront of providing access to digital scores for performance, research, and education. The rapid shift toward electronic score distribution has brought complex licensing challenges for music libraries, including copyright compliance, access limitations, and fair compensation for creators. This project group aims to establish best practices for electronic score licensing specifically tailored to the needs of music libraries, ensuring that these institutions can effectively manage electronic resources while respecting the rights of creators and publishers. The work of this Project Group is overseen by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section.
Events
- online
- Wednesday, 28 January, 2026
- Winnipeg, online
- 20 May, 2026
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- 28 June, 2026
- Thessaloniki
- Thursday, 2 July, 2026
Project Group on Best Practices for Electronic Score Licensing in Music Libraries
Officers:
Houman Behzadi (Canada), Chair
Activities
Materials presented in the sessions
- Latvia’s historical sound recordings collection – a window to the music of another eraZane Grosa (National Library of Latvia, Riga)
- Sound recordings of folk music at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences: contents and contexts of the collectionHana Urbancová (Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
- Sound archives at the web portal „Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek“. About the work of the department Media/Sound at the Saxon State and University Library, DresdenSophie Rölle (Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Can I listen to that online? Building AV access platformsJonathan Manton (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
- A New Archival Initiative for Electro-acoustic MusicKent Underwood and Tae Hong Park (New York University)
- Disseminate Spanish cultural heritage: Sound and music papersTeresa Delgado Sánchez and Maria Jesus Lopez Lorenzo (Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid)
- Will you remember me? A scientific approach to the preservation of the research material of a music anthropologist in Emilia-Romagna in the 1970s and 1980sFederica Bressan (Università degli studi di Padova)
- On the e-dissemination of traditional Greek musical heritage (Database)Sofia E. Tsopani, Dimitrios A. Adamos, and Aristeidis Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- On the e-dissemination of traditional Greek musical heritage (Presentation)Sofia E. Tsopani, Dimitrios A. Adamos, and Aristeidis Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Music has its destiny: On collecting audio in a digital ageJeremy A. Smith
- A new virtual library for libretti. Digitizing and presenting the libretti of the Her Collection at the Bavarian State LibraryFranz Jürgen Götz (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München)
- Ether today, gone tomorrow: Issues in digital audio archivingJudy Tsou and John Vallier (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
- The preservation of archival sound recordingsAntony Gordon
- Digital preservation issues – speaker notesAntony Gordon
- Digital preservation issuesAntony Gordon
- The preservation task of a sound archivePeter Copeland, read by Antony Gordon