Free sheet music sharing
Can anyone tell me what has happened to the free sheet music sharing facility that Musescore used to operate? It seems to have disappeared. A Google search takes me to the necessary page, but it seems to be taken over by a 'Back to School' site that wants to charge about £30 a year for the privilege. How does one now get free sheet music from other Musescore users - or is that no longer possible?
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You can still download Public Domains and Orignal Works score from musescore.com (if the uploaded didn't disable the download), but no longer any works that violates foreign copyrights, for those you need to be a paying Pro member.
However, this is nothing to discuss here in musescore.org
In reply to You can still download… by Jojo-Schmitz
So - as I thought, Musescore's users' uploads are no longer free?
In reply to So - as I thought, Musescore… by roymathers1
Uploading is free, the old 5 scores limit is no longer, download of scores that violate foreign copyrights is not free anymore.The alternative would have been to take the entire site down.
And with that removing the funding for musescore.org and the MuseScore program too.
In reply to Uploading is free, the ole 5… by Jojo-Schmitz
That's a shame! Thank you.
In reply to So - as I thought, Musescore… by roymathers1
If those uploads concern copyrighted material, then they are not free. (and haven't been for over a year now)
If those uploads concern original work, then the uploader gets to decide whether they are for free or not.
If those uploads concern public domain work, then they are free when correctly labeled.
On the upside though, they are now legal and the site wasn't shut down because of it..
See https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/5044610 for the announcement post and numerous explanatory comments from when this was enforced.
In reply to If those uploads concern… by jeetee
Thank you. The link is very interesting!