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Provided that they were performed in 1971 or earlier, they are OK to upload. However, these pieces were definitely published before 1987. I have an Eschig full score and parts for No.6 (full score says c1955; parts say c1967). The nonsense about different dates for the same edition is pretty common ...

If you click that link, then press Composers -> Focus, you can see it listed by composer.

Eric, please see the Public Domain page for an explanation of copyright law. As you will note, the terms expire at the end of a calendar year, so yes, all PD-US works as of 2024 will be PD on January 1, 2024. (Also, notice of intent to enforce is completely irrelevant to determining copyright status...

The advertisements are spam and you should ignore them. There is no way to convert between music PDFs and Microsoft Word (it wouldn't even make sense). PDF processing is, in effect, an automated process which attempts to generate small black and white PDFs from a color or larger-resolution scan. The...

Dear all, Thank you so much for your answers. I appreciate that. Please let me ask a more detailed question about this. I understand that a musical score made by a currently living pianist should not be arranged and uploaded without permission. However, what I would like to ask is a bit different. ...

A large portion of what Ludwig spits out (in general) is wrong.

Dear Sir or Madam, I have a question about uploading a note. The piece is J.S. Bach's work and it was later arranged by a pianist who passed away in 1930. Recently, a pianist further arranged the piece (you can listen to it in his CD or youtube), but there is no note reflecting this arrange. Theref...

To answer your question: the personal library of files you import into your IMSLP app is entirely separate from the library of files on IMSLP. When you import a file into the app, you are not submitting it to be hosted as part of the IMSLP collection (which you can do on the website). When you sync ...

I'm unsure why you cannot find the other parts for this arrangement. Go to https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_ ... ,_Antonio) and you will see them listed under "For 3 Flutes (Rice)" in the table of contents — a score and all three flute parts.

See - https://imslp.org/wiki/L%27invitation_a ... ,_Francis)

I'm baffled. I can point to any number of publications of arrangements "based on" performances of folk musicians; are these publications violating the copyrights of the performers? Maybe? The performers could also have their works be naturally in the public domain (as is the case for Ashl...

rdtennent wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:42 pm I'm not doubting that Ashley was an arranger of the song but I guess I should have claimed that too. If I were to revise the score with that claim, would the copyright status change?

No, it's the same either way

You can claim to be an arranger/transcriber, but if Ashley improvised or devised his version of the song, then he is one too, and this is relevant for copyright purposes.

Nobody is claiming that these items are in the public domain. You'll see that they're listed as being made available under license (albeit a non-free one).

I've added a page for him: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:L%C3%B3 ... i,_Eduardo as well as one work (Acuarelas valencianas) to begin.

Almost all of his works are in the public domain in Canada, and could be added.