Q. What would be the market value of this collection?
Q. What does "free public domain" mean?
Q. Why is there a copyright then?
Q. What about my privacy?
Q. What is "Adobe PDF"?Q. All I get is a blank page when I download a piece, how can I solve this?
Q. What if I still have trouble viewing or printing scores?Q. How long does it take to download a score?
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Q. What would be the market value of this collection?
A. That's hard to tell, but let's assume that the average price of a single score is $3.00, that would bring us to about $2,000.00. This does not include the value of the new sheet music we will add in the coming year.Q. What does "free public domain" mean?
A. Copyright law in the US, where the AllPianoSheetmusic server is based, stipulates that a piece enters into the public domain when the composer has been dead for 75 years. Similarly, a publication of their work may be distributed freely once the copyright on that edition is 75 years out of date.
The majority of scores featured are from pre-1925 music editions such as C.F. Peters, Brietkopf and Hartel, Bach-Gesselschaft and various other editions. These are all old enough to be out of copyright in essentially all countries. We can therefore distribute them on-line without royalty, and users can legally download them.
AllPianoSheetmusic acknowledges ultimate responsibility for the legality of all material on this web site.Q. Why is there a copyright then?
A. Whilst AllPianoSheetmusic may not own the original copyright for the music, it has added intellectual input in the form of layout, typesetting, format, interpretation, arrangement, programming, technical processing and similar activities in preparing the sheet music and construction of this site. As such, the material available on this site may not be used without the express permission of AllPianoSheetmusic by any commercial, profit or non profit organization, company or individual.
Permission is granted for the following uses only:
Downloads and copying by private individuals for their own personal use at home, school, study or exam. Please see our User Agreement for more details.Q. What about my privacy?
A. You can find our Privacy Policy here.Q. What is "Adobe PDF"?
A. Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.
Free Acrobat Reader software is easy to download from the Adobe Web site.
Compact Adobe PDF files are smaller than their source files, can be downloaded a page at a time for fast display on the Web.
For more detailed info, please go to the Adobe web site.Q. All I get is a blank page when I download a piece, how can I solve this?
A. Just before you click on a file to download first refresh the page. (F5 in windows)
If that doesn't work then first delete your temporary internet files.
(In internet explorer from the menu "Extra, options...")
Next when you are on a composers' page ready to download, refresh. (F5)
Then try to download again. This usually does the trick.Q. What if I still have trouble viewing or printing scores?
A. Make sure that you're using the latest version of Acrobat Reader.
At least version 5 is required to view and print our files!
Also Adobe does have a great support section, which you can find here.Q. How long does it take to download a score?
A. The sheet music available here sizes at roughly 45kB per page, give or take some. Most files here are less than 1 mB. In the subscribers section the file size and an estimated download time with a 56k modem are indicated with each file.
After clicking a file to download, please be patient, because it can take a few minutes. If you doubt that the score is actually downloading, just watch the lights on your modem.
If you have trouble downloading a particular file, please let us know.Q. What if I lose connection while downloading?
A. For larger files, it may help to obtain a program for resuming interrupted downloads, such as GetRight.Q. What must I do to renew or to cancel my subscription?
A. You will be notified in time before your subscription ends to give you the option to cancel your subscription or to stay for another year (365 days from the day you subscribe).
You can of course cancel at any time and still keep your account for the remainder of the year.
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