If someone places a piece of PD sheet music on their web site, it has been published and you have a right to "Fair Use" of the sheet music. But the digital image file and the digital image of the sheet music are protected by copyright law and belong to the owner of the web site This is still a gray area of law, and we highly recommend the advice of an attorney.

ASCAP is a membership organization which licenses the public performance of its writer and publisher members' works. ASCAP does not print, publish, or sell music. You must contact the publisher to ascertain if sheet music is available.

Downloading sheet music is easy. You select the piece you want to have, pay with your credit card, then download a unique file with your music in it. Then you download our free printing program SafePublish, open the file and print it. It's as simple as that.

has just been explained in the previous question, sheet music with guitar chords along with everything else you could possibly need, are all contained within the CD ROM portion of your CD. We do not sell separate sheet music. However, in the unlikely event that you are unable to access the CD ROM portion of your CD, we will provide you with paper copies of whatever you need for a small additional charge.

You would probably receive a "cease and desist" letter from the copyright holder advising that you have infringed on his copyright. You would them present your PD research findings and attempt to reach an amicable agreement with the copyright holder. If you had done your research properly and had good reason to believe you had a legal right to use the music, hopefully the copyright holder would accept the most reasonable royalties possible for the use you made of his song.

Yes. Sibelius Internet Edition is compatible with virtually any e-commerce system and payment method.

Once a song is approved it is available for sale. Fans can listen to the full song 128kbs song for free, and then purchase the 192kbs MP3. You can track sales and many other song stats in your account profile.

All you need is a Windows PC and a printer. Our printing program SafePublish. SafePublish currently runs on Windows 95/98/ME/2000 and XP. You'll need a standard browser with the normal settings (including Javascript and cookies). We've tested the site on the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera. If you're not on a Windows PC right now, you can still download your music, and then e-mail or copy it to a friend with a Windows PC.

If you noticed, on most pages there should be a bar with a green light on it, and the bar reads "Download", under "Music", "Lyrics" or "Sheet Music". Simply click on this button and a dialogue box should pop up asking if you want to save this to your computer, and to what directory. Follow the instructions from there. If you are having difficulty, please email me. PLEASE NOTE: Some MIDI files are copyright-protected by Peter Breiner and Naxos.

This depends on the type of machine you are using and how its software is configured. In many cases you can simply click on the link filename to download the file but in some cases this will just play the file. Another technique is to use right-click with the mouse on the file link. In most cases this will open a menu and you can select "Save Target As..." to save the file. Save it to your desktop or any floppy or hard disk.

In order to view and print AudibleFaith sheet music you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a program that can display Public Document Format (pdf) files. We use pdf format documents so that anyone can use them, since the reader is free. If we used any of the "standard" notation file formats we could not be sure that everyone would have the software to read these formats. If you do not have the Acrobat Reader, we provide it here.

You can use most pieces of music provided you have received the necessary permissions from the copyright/publishing owner(s). Well-known/published music can be bloody expensive to use. You will need to have cleared rights to use the piece of music in "all media" and in "all territories". This means the short can have a life after Moonlight Shorts. Participating groups are encouraged to work with local composer and/or musicians to write and record music for the films.

The easiest way to find out the value of a piece of sheet music or a book is to search the Advanced Book Exchange to see what the average price is that a rare book dealer is offering the piece for (make sure you search under both title and year). Keep in mind that the condition of the piece is a major factor in determining its price; most sheet music in good condition is worth between $15 and $20.

Anyone with a computer, web browser, and the ability to open PDF documents is able to use our service. The website has been built with compliant XHTML code as well as PHP, so as long as you have a modern web browser you should not experience any problems. Should you find yourself running into problems, we suggest using an alternate browser. Our suggestion, Firefox.

Yes, but you most likely already have it installed. All of our sheet music is in portable document format (PDF) and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html to download the application if you do not currently have it installed.

You should download your music to the one computer where you keep your digital music library. Your download can be played, burned or transferred to a portable player from that computer.

Copyright owners enjoy a number of different rights including performance rights, print rights and recording rights. Rental or purchase of sheet music or the purchase of a record does not authorize its public performance.

A music cue sheet contains details of all audio that has been used in a production/broadcast. The cue sheet must contain the title, composer(s), publisher(s) and the duration of every item of audio contained within the production. Multiple uses of the same audio must be detailed separately. Here is a blank cue sheet for you to use. You will find more info and links on our cue sheet help page.

Many libraries include sheet music in their catalogs and you can look for specific titles through standard searches such as author, composer, title, and subject headings. Usually there is limited access to illustrations, although there are certainly exceptions (Brown University provides excellent subject access to illustrations for some of their sheet music, for instance).

Sheet music belongs to the choir and is only on loan. Upon termination, a member is required to return his music to the Notenwart. Music is organized by number and each member is responsible to maintain his music in an orderly manner in a ring binder and keep it in good condition. There will be a charge of $1.00 per sheet to replace lost music.

We have several professional music subscriptions with companies such as Entertainment Resources Group and TM Century. We receive new music on a weekly basis. This is the same music radio stations are receiving and this keeps our library current. We then convert the music on CD to the highest quality MP3 format. We do not download music off the internet from illegal web sites. This is an important question to ask any DJ. If this is how they obtain their music regularly, stay away from them.

There are several answers to this question. First and foremost is that you are directly supporting the artist by purchasing music from our site. The music we offer has been handpicked by the artist from their archives based, in part, on the quality of the artist's performance and the recording of the show. The live concert performances, which you may have attended, were recorded directly from the soundboard and are available only through our site.

Music can be part of a podcast, but Juice can not search p2p (peer-to-peer) networks such as Gnutella for music.

No. The End User License Agreement you accept when you purchase music from ARC Music Downloads prohibits you from using the music you download for commercial use. For more information, please consult the End User License Agreement. ARC wants you to spread the message; but we need the funds from our music sales to help fund our campaign.

Real Networks has a digital music service called Rhapsody which lets customers buy permanent digital downloads as well as stream digital music directly from their site to a computer and, if customers choose to use Rhapsody's "To Go" program, on selected portable devices. For help with the Rhapsody service, we suggest you use Rhapsody Support. RealPlayer Music Store (http://musicstore.real.com) sells music only as permanent digital downloads that the customer owns and uses.

Napster lets customers listen to an unlimited number of full-length songs while they are connected to the Internet and download an unlimited number of high quality music files to their PC. They can listen to these downloaded songs online or offline and keep the music they download for as long as they want to be a "Member." Napster subscribers can access music in two ways: as "Members" and "To Go Members.