If you wish to propose new alternative universes that would have that property, again, over there on that other website would be the place. There is no known alternative universe in which there is even the slightest issue with that. it's your choice whether or not to upload the music to a site that you know full will display ads. Further discussion, again, belongs over there on that score-sharing website, not on this one dedicated to the notation software.Īlso, there is very certainly nothing illegal or 'stealing' about a website honoring its own terms of service. Applying that label to a score with a particular CC license should't be a problem at all - the license remains as is.

'Public domain' in this context is just a convenient label to help separate out the which scores are downloadable and which are not. Once again, since this discussiobn is about the score-sharing website, discussion really belongs over there on that site. MuseScore has agreed to handle these payments on our behalf. (Permissive 'GPL' and 'Creative Commons' licenses have been tested and upheld in international courts, and carry real legal teeth.) If other owners, whose works we wish to have access to, wish to be paid for a license, they must be. If we choose not to exercise that entitlement, if we choose to not to impose restrictions, that's our prerogative: by definition, the copyright (even if un-registered. The notion that there should be a paid-for 'pro' section, and the paltry price that you pay to belong to it, is more than fair.Īll of us as musical composers are entitled by law to be paid for our work and to retain the 'copy right' concerning the thing that we have made.

They are able to do it because they are assured of royalty payments. They provide their licensed material, not merely as a PDF or printed book, but in a form that you can manipulate and experiment with. Owners of music know how important this sort of thing is to musical education. And, we should likewise appreciate that MuseScore has created a convenient venue by which this can lawfully be done. We should simply be appreciative that the owners of copyrighted music allow their scores to be made available in this way.

Download love live muse for free