Money and Music
I've been away from Musescore for a bit, and coming back I'm a little taken aback by the need to have a paid subscription to download music scores - especially user uploaded scores which used to be free in the past. I couldn't find UELA or such which says that Musescore owns everything uploaded to the website. Can anyone post a link?
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Ask over on musescore.com
In reply to Ask over on musescore.com by Jojo-Schmitz
You're joking right? Depending on what I click I'm either at .org or .com. It's really one thing and to say otherwise is incredulous. If I'm on .org and type something into the "Search for Sheet music" field, I get taken to .com.
I'm here because on the .com site I clicked on the forums link.
In reply to You're joking right?… by Abed Nasreddin
I'm dead serious.
See https://musescore.org/en/faq#faq-20657
In reply to I'm dead serious. See https:… by Jojo-Schmitz
So from that page, musescore.com offers "free accounts" in order to get users to upload music scores (free for musescore), then demands users to pay to download those music scores. Users are not compensated for content, right? Where do users sign away their right to compensation?
I have faith that you, Jojo, can find me the link to that since you work for MuseScore. You must have an idea where that legal stuff is.
In reply to So from that page, musescore… by Abed Nasreddin
See:
https://musescore.com/legal/terms
also:
https://musescore.com/community-guidelines
In reply to See: https://musescore.com… by Jm6stringer
Thanks!
In reply to So from that page, musescore… by Abed Nasreddin
No, I don't work for MuseScore. At least I don't get paid for it ;-)
musescore.com does have contracts with some of the larger publishers, I doubt they'll go into negotiations with individual composers
In reply to No, I don't work for… by Jojo-Schmitz
Maybe you should look into asking for compensation since MuseScore seems to be moving to a for-profit model.
MuseScore.com asks people to upload their scores under the Creative Commons license, which is non-commercial, but then asks people to pay to access that. Seems a bit on the sketchy side. I wonder if the UELA can really just wave away the CC licenses.
Thanks Herr Jojo for your input.
In reply to Maybe you should look into… by Abed Nasreddin
You're mistaken: musescore.com does not ask you to upload scores with a certain license. And if you upload them with CC0 (AKA Public Domain) license, and mark them as sich, they are downloaable without paying, same if you makr them as your Original Work, regardless of license.