Printing Copyrighted Music
I recently signed up for a Musescore Pro account. When I download scores that are public domain the download runs smoothly. Yet, when I want to print a copyrighted piece within the Musescore portal it asks me for a 30 day printing trial. Now I am confused, since it is unclear to me wether a pro account covers the printing of copyrighted pieces, or if that is tagged to an additional subscription aside from the pro account. I have tried several times to log into my Musescore.com account with different browsers. If the printing option costs extra, I cannot find any information on how much that would cost. The piece that I tried to print - since the downloading option is not available, is the follwing:
https://musescore.com/user/28430858/scores/6012468
Any advice or hint is highly appreciated! Andreas
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First make sure you're logged in to the correct use account. When clicking through on your username here, I end up at https://musescore.com/user/755976 which doesn't show you as a Pro user.
Asking for support on the online score sharing platform musescore.com should be done over at that site (see https://musescore.org/en/node/277874 for some clarification).
In case of account/billing issues, you should contact support@musescore.com
That score is PD, so no download restrictions in general, but only those imposed by the uploader, so you need to contact him/her
In reply to That score is PD, so no… by Jojo-Schmitz
The "PD" designation is a large, well-known bug in the scheme. This is the author's derivative piece based on a public-domain piece, because MuseScore.com can't offer you anything more exact. The author says it is copyrighted. That is the opposite of "PD". The system has no way to talk about a non-public-domain work based on a public-domain one, which is exactly what the "public-domain" status of the earlier piece allows one to create.