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Is it free software?

Is it free software?

Posted Feb 23, 2026 22:14 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Is it free software? by rgmoore
Parent article: The Book of Remind

Don't forget that many modern scores are also under copyright.

So yes, if you find an old-enough score to copy you're safe, but if you go out and buy a score it's quite likely protected. It may not be the notes that are protected, but all the stuff around it, the typesetting, the font, the layout, etc etc.

If a human would have trouble getting all that right, I dread to think what a mess an AI would make of it ...

Cheers,
Wol

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Is it free software?

Posted Mar 18, 2026 22:53 UTC (Wed) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link]

In those cases, it's the score as drawn, rather than the music it is a written form of. I need permission to make a photocopy of the score, but performing the music doesn't convey any element of the score that wasn't in the (public domain) music, so there's no copyright issue making a new recording of it.


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