Is there a way for my pieces to be stolen?
I just got my account as of today and I was looking around the forums and I see that some people are getting their pieces stolen. That's a big Issue for me because I hold my pieces very dearly, as I'm sure everyone does, and I don't want someone else taking credit for them. How do I prevent that? And also, How would I know if someone stole my piece? Does Musescore alert me if my piece has been downloaded by someone else or changed in any way? If someone did steal my piece and they tried to change something about it, would it change the original that I downloaded?
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If you don't want them to be downloaded, don't publish them in the first place.
As far as I can see you don't have any score publisched on MuseScore.com, so where's your problem?
In reply to If you don't want them to be… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm afraid to publish because I don't want them to get stolen, I mostly just use the app downloaded on my computer and I look on the website to try to find famous scores that I can't find free on the internet.
In reply to I'm afraid to publish… by marcopolo1622
If you upload and publish and set them up with a copyright, you are protected by copyright laws. The problem is 'just' to find and prosecute the violaters.
In reply to If you upload and publish… by Jojo-Schmitz
If i just keep them on the app and only save them to my computer, they stay with me, correct? They don't get published?
In reply to If i just keep them on the… by marcopolo1622
You can even upload them to MuseScore.com (or 'Save online), but mark them as private and nobody but you (and those you share the secret link with) will be able to see them
In reply to You can even upload them to… by Jojo-Schmitz
thank you so much
In reply to I'm afraid to publish… by marcopolo1622
It's not clear what you mean by "stolen" in this context. If someone wishes to use your music for prupsoes you have not authorized via for your license statement, they need to get your permission. If you find someone not doing this - extremely rare that someone would do anything but listen to it online or download it to liste locally & print, which is the whole reason for publishing in the first place - then you can write them and ask them to stop.
Your stuff is protected under copyright law, so technically it's illegal for someone to take your stuff and claim it as their own. What I do is every time I create a new score, I put my name in the part that says "copyright". Once that copyright is saved, no one, not even me, can change it. So when someone downloads your score and changes anything (even the composer's name), your name will always be at the bottom of each page. Musescore does not alert you if someone has downloaded you piece or if they are changing it. No, it does not change your original score. I actually had the same fear that someone would take credit for what I did. Nothing like that has happened yet.
In reply to Your stuff is protected… by Rebecca Y
At least in part this is pure fantasy. You believe there can be a file, a sequence of characters such that it is impossible to make a copy with something (the "copyright" setting) changed? Musescore files are in human-readable XML, so this would be laughably simple to do.
In reply to At least in part this is… by Imaginatorium
However, the original score recorded at musescore.com is still here and this proves its authenticity. (date, time of uploading, copyright)
In reply to Your stuff is protected… by Rebecca Y
It is actually quite simple to change the copyright message should you ever need to: go to File / Score Properties. As mentioned though, even if we took this facility away, it would still be possible for anyone with a ZIP program and a text editor (which is to say, everyone who has access to a computer that is capable of running MuseScore in the first place) to modify the file in this or other ways.
Basically, posting a score means it is possible for someone to use it in some way you might not like. It's also possible they will do incredible things with it that would make you even more proud to have made it available than you might already be.