Disappearing Musescore on Website- How do I Get It Back?
About a year ago, I uploaded a choir arrangement to Frozen's "Let It Go" in hopes of it being sung by my school. Unfortunately, the school chose another song, but they're willing to try again this year. In the great news of hearing this, I massively updated the arrangement, making the piano part more exciting and the choir part less excessive. I was ready to upload this update onto my account until I realized that it had disappeared! Disappointed, I told the choir director that the score had been taken down by copyright. But now that I've looked at the new Musescore website and looked through my profile, it says that I have five scores, but it only shows four, the one missing being the Frozen arrangement. I know that this isn't a private score problem because if I did accidentally make it private, then I would still see it but nobody else would.
You will see this on my profile ( //musescore.com/lora-coggins ), and if you click on my scores ( //musescore.com/lora-coggins/sheetmusic ), then you will see that there are only four scores on the website.
As of now, I'm quite confused. Is my score still on the website? If so, how do I get it back?
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In reply to If you bump into something by Shoichi
for some scores I know I get the message:
In reply to If you bump into something by Shoichi
I have sent a message to the dashboard.
In reply to If you bump into something by Shoichi
I just looked at my email (I don't normally check it), and it does say that it has been temporarily taken down due to copyright infringement. Is there any way that I can get it back, update the score, and change the license?
In reply to I just looked at my email (I by L. Coggins
If there is copyright infringement you can not update 'that' score, probably you will get back it, I think.
See: https://musescore.com/legal/terms paragraph 7
In reply to If there is copyright by Shoichi
I see now. Thanks for your help!
In reply to I just looked at my email (I by L. Coggins
How would changing the license have any effect on a copyright infringement?
Theft (of intellectual property) is theft, no matter what the license.
In reply to How would changing the by Jojo-Schmitz
perhaps means 'attribution' 'share-alike' 'CC' et similia?
In reply to perhaps means 'attribution' by Shoichi
How would that change anything? If there is a copyright infringement, this means the score is copyrighted by someone else, then you can't just change the licecense, only the copyright holder can do that
Please check https://musescore.com/my-scores
In reply to Please check by Thomas
I see now. So, if I were to delete the score and upload my newer version with changes and a changed license, giving credit to the original owner, would that still be under copyright laws?
(My best guess would be that it probably would, since I still used a large percentage of the owner's original work, especially the piano part, so I'll have to show the changes in order to be approved. The only problem is that I can't upload pictures on this site for some reason, no matter how hard I try.)
In reply to I see now. So, if I were to by L. Coggins
In general, if you create an arrangement of someone else's work and wish to publish it (including posting it publicly on musescore.com), it isn't enough to just give credit - you need *permission* (which usually entails paying a royalty). You would need to consult the copyright owner to see what their policy is.
In reply to In general, if you create an by Marc Sabatella
I see now. Thanks for your help!
In reply to I see now. So, if I were to by L. Coggins
https://twitter.com/musescore/status/822193713740976129
In reply to https://twitter.com/musescore by Isaac Weiss
I see now. Thanks for your help!
I do have one last question. Sometimes, on YouTube, I get copyright notices that seem to last forever and then suddenly disappear after a year or so. Can that sort of thing happen on this website? (I'm probably sure that it won't in this case since the original song is pretty popular, I used a lot of the original score from the Frozen music book that I have, and it's Disney. However, I am curious if other people have gotten into a copyright situation like I have and have eventually gotten off of that copyright situation.)