Chilly Weekend: Black Friday Prequel and Public Domain Music Scores [1]

If it's fall, these [2] must be cease-and-desists for Black Friday ads. This year, they seem to be coming earlier than ever, as Wal-Mart sends pre-notifications [3] against future posting. I put my analysis into a Chilling Effects Weather Report [4]

Meanwhile, Michael Geist has the low-down [5] on the overbroad copyright demand (PDF) [6] that has shuttered the International Music Score Library Project [7]. Despite vetting all submitted music for public domain status in Canada, where he runs the site, the IMSLP operator got a complaint that he was making scores available to jurisdictions where they were still under copyright -- talk about misusing disharmony.