musescore selling my score
Hi, I noticed musescore is selling one of my scores for $2.99. Does anyone know when this started, and how I can opt out? I find it pretty disgusting and greedy that they're doing this.
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It seems they are selling all your (and everybody else's) scores.
Did you read the Terms of Use?
By uploading anything, you are giving MS the license:
By posting any User Generated Content on, through or in connection with the Service, you hereby grant to MuseScore a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such User Generated Content[...]
And they will not sell the user generated content 'outside the service':
Except as expressly provided for herein, this limited license does not grant MuseScore the right to sell or otherwise distribute your User Generated Content outside of the Service.
Nothing about they cannot sell it inside the service. Distribute does not mean for free.
The license you give is perpetual, you cannot opt-out (even if you delete your account)
.3 The license you grant to MuseScore is [...] perpetual (meaning that no termination of this Agreement will affect the license granted by you)[...]
In reply to It seems they are selling… by graffesmusic
This is why I will never post anything on musescore.com :-(
As you're just the arranger of an otherwise copyrighted score, these fees are supposed to pay the royalties to the copyright holder
In reply to As you're just the arranger… by Jojo-Schmitz
You think that for every score, not in PD, MS is actually paying the composer/copyright holder?
Unless the uploader is the same person as the composer/copyright holder?
In reply to You think that for every… by graffesmusic
If they have an agreement with the copyright holder, yes
In reply to If they have an agreement… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ok, i see.
And if there is no agreement, a non-PD score cannot be uploaded then?
In reply to Ok, i see. And if there is… by graffesmusic
It can, unless the copyright holder requests a take-down. And it might get sold, to non-Pro members.