The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120128   Message #2611086
Posted By: Snuffy
14-Apr-09 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: Interesting Folk Database: Trad Music Library
Subject: RE: Interesting Folk Database: Trad Music Library
PLEASE NOTE: Because of the volunteer nature of The Digital Tradition, it is difficult to ensure proper attribution and copyright information for every song included. Please assume that any song which lists a composer is copyrighted ©. You MUST aquire proper license before using these songs for ANY commercial purpose. If you have any additional information or corrections to the credit or copyright information included, please e-mail those additions or corrections to us (along with the song title as indexed) so that we can update the database as soon as possible. Thank You.

This appears at the foot of each and every page in the DT. If I were reproducing whole chunks of somebody else's website, common decency would dictate that I acknowledged the source of my borrowing on each page, not a single solitary acknowledgement tucked away in some backwater of the website. Neither the home page nor the "Main Menu" page nor the "About This Website" mention either Mudcat or the DT, so perhaps you could tell me where this prominent acknowledgement is not being hidden.

I note that Mr Smith states on his site Website owners are granted a free licence to use midi files and graphics files from this site on their personal websites providing an acknowledgement of source is given (one for each item used) and a link to my home page is include on each page where one or more items is used.

"Do as you would be done by" springs to mind. How about it, Mr Smith?