While we eagerly anticipate the long awaited re-opening of International Music Score Library Project on the 1st July, another site offering free scores and downloads is www.musopen.com. They are proposing an interesting copyright free distribution and funding model, whereby, donations are gathered via the site to go towards paying for a recording which will be released in the public domain. The performer agrees to release their recording to be distributed free. A rather innovative and... clever idea. I will keep an eye on this to see how it develops.