Dear Composer or Copyright Owner,
s a composer or other copyright holder, please take time to carefully review the Creative Commons and licensing policies and guidelines.
For those uploading the first time, please remember choose the menu option "New Composition" when uploading your original works (even if they are scans of manuscripts or printouts), "New Arrangement" when uploading new arrangements, and "New Edition" when uploading new editions of public domain works. As it is normally assumed that composers and arrangers have edited their own work, please leave the "Editor" field empty unless another person has actually edited your work (in which case their name should be inserted). Note also that the English term "Editor" is not the equivalent of the French editeur or Italian editore. "Editor" refers to the person who reviewed and corrected the piece, while the French and Italian words are closer to the English word "publisher". In the "Publisher" field, please use your own full legal name, as making your scores and sound files available for free download on this site constitutes "publication" under the laws of most countries in the world. (Note that this is done automatically when using the standard upload tools).
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You are free to change the license after upload to something more suitable. IMSLP as a matter of policy will list files under the most permissive licensing terms. Since licenses and public domain dedications are irrevocable, restrictions cannot be added later, but a more liberal license can be selected. Composers are also encouraged to make use of our new template {{NoPerf}}, which automatically places works into a new category - Unperformed Works. To add this template to your pages, simply copy and paste the little template above (curly brackets and all) into the "First Performance" field of the "General Information" section on all work pages.
Before you upload, remember these key points...
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Dear Jean,
would it be too difficult to ask you to find a PDF merge utility (e.g. PDF Toolkit, pdftk, or PDF Split and Merge, pdf-sam) and bundle the individual pages of your score together into one file? If I don’t hear back I’ll probably do this for you; it’s inconvenient for visitors to the site to have to download fourteen files when one would do.
Regards, Philip
Cher Jean,
serait-il trop difficile pour vous demander de trouver un utilitaire PDF fusion (par exemple PDF Toolkit, pdftk ou PDF Split and Merge, pdf-SAM) et regrouper les différentes pages de votre score en un seul fichier? Si je n’entends pas revenir je vais probablement le faire pour vous, c’est gênant pour les visiteurs du site d’avoir à télécharger des fichiers lorsque quatorze d’un fichier unique ferait.
Cordialement, Philippe