28 Jul
2014
28 Jul
'14
11:54 a.m.
My guess is a lot of people who write dances would be happy to contribute,
but trying to wrangle all the callers and dances does seem pretty daunting.
Presumably older dances are in the public domain, either by clearly defined
intellectual property laws or implicitly via the folk process. What if you
started out by adding a ton of chestnuts and other older dances, and then
when you had enough to show, you could open it up for people to contribute
their newer dances directly?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Maia McCormick via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently in programming school casting about for programming
projects, and I had the idea of a giant searchable contradance database,
where you can filter by move combination, etc.
My question: is this something people would be interested in having? Or
does it run the risk of infringing on intellectual property, or
shortchanging dance writers on book sales, etc.? (Obviously no dances would
be included without the author's permission, but it may be that making a
huge ton of dances freely available and searchable in one place online
would be a death blow to published books of dances, or have some other
negative effect I'm not foreseeing right now...)
Anyway: does anyone have any thoughts on this project?
Cheers,
Maia
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